I changed the password on my MyBook Essential External Drive a while ago. As I wanted to use it again, it didn’t accept the password I entered. The password I choose was 64 characters long, does anybody how many characters MyBook accepts as a password? If I know it, maybe I can cut down the password to allowed lenght and it may accept it. This is important for me. Any help is deeply appreciated.
If I can’t recover the password and have to delete the drive with the WD Smartware software, would I be able to recover the data with a Data Recovery Software?
I really want to congratulate the geniuses at Western Digital who tought to remove the reset button/pinhole.
If I wanted a military standard, really uncrackable harddrive, I would have bought that. Older versions of MyBook are easily resetted with a paper clip.
On my current MyBook Essential version is a small slot on the front with a “lock” icon on it. I don’t know what that is, but I hope it’s some kind of lock/unlock or reset button.
I read this forum and searched the internet for a reset option. There is for almost every model a reset button, but not for this one? I can’t believe that. (or rather I don’t want to) If anybody was able to reset their password on the WD MyBook Essential model, please contact me and reply here.
I’m still looking for a solution, but there seems to be none. I assume that every commercial IT product (sotware or hardware) has a backdoor intentionally put there by the manufacturer. WD won’t probably reveal this backdoor to me. Wish I had some friends over at the NSA. :smileyvery-happy: One phone call to WD and oh-la-la my harddrive is unlocked.
I’m with you on that. I’ve been trying ot figure out how to CHANGE my password hoping to leave it blank to get rid of the unlock crapware. And I cannot even find a way to do *that*. I’d hate to see how someone who is less tech savvy than myself would feel trying to do this.
