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pandabigman
Sep 18, 2015Aspirant
Password for Locked Hard Drives
Hi Support, I have a problem on my ReadyNAS pro 6 HDD. My readynas pro can't access some hdd. When i put these hdd on my desktop and power on. My PC will show Hard disk "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" is ...
StephenB
Sep 18, 2015Guru - Experienced User
I've never had to do this, but there is an old thread that suggests the following:
For future reference, this should unlock the drives:
hdparm --security-unlock NETGEAR /dev/???
hdparm --security-disable NETGEAR /dev/???
So maybe try NETGEAR on the PC.
You can find hdparm for Windows, but the commands might not work there, since /dev/??? is an linux path.
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