Auto unlock DOES NOT occur for any other user account on the computer where it was enabled, unless the other user also enabled auto unlock for the same drive on the same computer.Auto unlock DOES NOT follow the user to other computers if the user account is part of a Domain.WD Discovery, WD Security and WD Drive Utilities should both installed to ensure consistent auto unlock operations.
The auto unlock process can take 5 minutes or longer if the drive is connected to the computer at the time of reboot or power on.
The drive will auto unlock upon logoff and login, power off and power on or after the computer has been rebooted with the drive connected. "enable auto lock on THIS drive, for THIS computer, for THIS user profile" The drive will only auto unlock when connected to the computer with the user account logged in where the auto lock setting was enabled. Avoid un-authorized access to an unlocked drive by password protecting the computer login and locking the computer screen when not in use. The drive will auto unlock and be accessible to anyone using the currently logged-in user profile on that computer only. For more details, please refer to Answer ID 20814: WD My Book is Not Detected by WD Security. Certain models of WD My Book do not support the WD Unlocker VCD and require WD Security and WD Drive Utilities or WD Discovery to be installed on the computer to unlock and access the drive contents. The auto unlock setting on a password protected drive using WD Security allows the drive to auto unlock for this computer and User: (wd_drive_user). (After 5 attempts WD diplays a message that there were too many password attempts and I should try again by unplugging the drive, turning it off and on and plug it in again OR clicking drive erase permanently erasing all the data on the drive so the HDD would be accessible again but with no data)Īnd performing a data recovery on the drive to recover the lost data.Information about the auto unlock feature or WD Security software on password protected drives.*ENDĪ WD Security password protected drive does not auto unlock while connected to a computer. I've read a lot here and there and I do not know which of the solutions work or how to perform them because there were no descriptions.ġ.Replacing the board that is locking the HDD<-where can i found one or how can i know if i bought one is good for mine?Ģ.Try to access the HDD using Linux<-somehow to bypass the hardware lock,but how can it be done?ģ.Do a format on the HDD so the hardware lock would be erased with all with my data I was using the same windows and I've tried to remove the password.I had access to the drive because I've set the option before to remember password on this PC,so I thought the lock was removed, but now I've had to change my OS and don't have access to my external HDD because of the lock. I have a Western Digital MyBook Essential 2TB 3.0 USB external HDD which I've set a password a long time ago.
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