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DSMIW
Jun 08, 2012Aspirant
RND4000v1 X-RAID: HDD Master Password?
I need to initialise a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Green SATA (WD10EARX-00PASB0) hard drive in a Windows XP personal computer. The disk appears to be ATA locked with high security. It was previously...
mdgm-ntgr
Jun 08, 2012NETGEAR Employee Retired
You're sure it's a NV+ (v1) i.e. the NV+ chassis is silver and the NV+ runs RAIDiator 4.1.x or earlier?
Power down the NV+, remove all disks (label order), put disk you want to unlock in NAS, do a factory reset, then power down, remove disk, connect to PC and it should be unlocked. You can then put your disks back in the NV+ (same order as before) and the disk will be unlocked.
Power down the NV+, remove all disks (label order), put disk you want to unlock in NAS, do a factory reset, then power down, remove disk, connect to PC and it should be unlocked. You can then put your disks back in the NV+ (same order as before) and the disk will be unlocked.
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