

Supported Products: My Passport, My Book, WD Backup Drive, easystore, WD Elements SE, My Cloud Home. Stay up-to-date with software offered by WD and WD partners. Set a password and manage drive settings. x86/fpu: Enabled xstate features 0x7, context size is 832 bytes, using 'standard' format. WD Discovery features the ability to: Manage connected external drives. x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x04: 'AVX registers' x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x02: 'SSE registers'

x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x01: 'x87 floating point registers' x86/fpu: xstate_offset: 576, xstate_sizes: 256 Hope this solves your issue and you are more careful with passphrases from now on.Code: Select all microcode: CPU0 microcode updated early to revision 0x24, date = The time taken will raise exponentially with the increase in each alphabet or special character. PASSPHRASES made in this manner are difficult to crack with brute force attacks or with any other password cracking option available as on date. Now, let us assume that 88 is your year of birth. Next time when you select a password.think about a word. It is really hard to lose all your valuable data just because you dont remember a silly password. After you have formatted the Hard Disk, you can start dumping whatever data it is that you find crucial again into your freshly reformatted WD Passport. The reason is that there is hardware level encryption in the WD Passport. Once you use the Erase Tool, whatever data that was there in the HDD till now will be gone forever. One can reformat the hard disk with the Erase option available in the WD Unlock Tool. The reason is that there is hardware level encryption in the WD Passport.The Only solution left is that you will have to forget about what was there in the hard disk if you forgot your password and start afresh. Not even the customer care can offer a solution. The WD Security password protection is a 256-bit AES encryption system.

The problem with WD Password is that you cannot retrieve the password once it is forgotten.

If you had used a password to secure your WD Password, you did it probably because you didnt want anyone else to see the contents which you had stored inside the WD Passport External HDD.
