How do I get Unlock CD feature off?

[coffeebreaker]

WDUnlockCD has some how become attached to my 2 external hard drives - A Passport and a Ultra. I can’t get into either of them because of this. how do I remove this feature or whatever it is? I use desktop, WIN 10. I use the external hard drives for everything including back ups. Now…WD won’t let me access them. Please help!

[ActiveUser]

Hard to find much on this topic but there was an older post where someone discusses what seems like a potential step in the right direction. Have you seen this post?

No WD Smartware CD unlock option - I cannot open my drive

I strongly suggest you try the drive on a different computer. If you are able to unlock it there, please remove the security on the drive and then put it back to your PC. Hopefully the error won’t pop up. Please make sure you install the SES driver on your system as well, I don’t think you will be able to unlock it otherwise. Here’s a link to the file and the SmartWare image file, which you can burn if you cannot find your CD: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=S7SRJw What is the SES …

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