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[74stingray]

Hey Guys

I got my Western Digital Drive back up and running, you can unlock your locked drives, WD & seagate. you pop it in your PC, create a boot floppy, unplug all other drives. add atapwd.exe to the floppy, run this and follow these instructions. I just unlocked my WD80EB using this method that I found last night. The fix for Seagate is a little different but its suppost to work as well.


1. Connect the hard drive as primary master (remove the jumper)
2. Create a bootable floppy with ATAPWD.EXE on it.
3. Boot from the floppy and launch ATAPWD.EXE select the WD80EB drive and press enter.
4. Select ERASE PREPARE and then ERASE UNIT.
5. Enter the master password: WDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWD
6. It will give you a Busy error, that means it is erasing the drive so please dont turn off the computer.
7. After 30min press F5 to refresh the list and you will see that the drive has become unlocked

Hope this helps someone else, you guys helped me get my eeprom up again. Thanks

Stingray

[Maertz]

did you just copy thisoff of lammas?

[74stingray]

No, from another site. Who knows where it came from originally, but its getting around. Glad to see it out there.

[Pikkon]

There is already a thread about that,but all in all it works great.

[pug_ster]

I got a 2 year old locked wd drive and I just unlocked it now.  Thanks for the info.