GUIDE: How to remove SmartWare permanently

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New drives do that on their own, the VCD partition is now called unlocker with 20mb instead of 700mb and it only has a tool to unlock the drive or to erase it if you forget the password and nothing else, it doesn’t even hold smartware any longer. Also, it will only show up only if there’s an active password, so you won’t even see the VCD until you create a password with the new drives, so the first partition recognized by the system is the drive itself rather than the VCD.