I also like Craig3’s solution of turning off write caching, though I have not tried it yer. It seems to have disappeared from WD software. I also wonder what happened to the WD utility that I used to have (on a previous PC) that would re-lock and allow removal of the drive safely. ASUS ranks among BusinessWeek’s InfoTech 100 for 12 consecutive years.
I think that’s what the WD Erase utility does. ASUS is a leading company driven by innovation and commitment to quality for products that include notebooks, netbooks, motherboards, graphics cards, displays, desktop PCs, servers, wireless solutions, mobile phones and networking devices. But maybe all I need to do to erase them is reformat them.
I have already erased this yellow drive and relocked it using the new WD Security program. WD Blue 4TB PC Hard Drive - 5400 RPM Class SATA 6 Gb s 64 MB Cache 3.5. You need WD Utilities to do that, I think. This is a concern because of the problem with the security holes in WD’s hardware encryption that have been widely reported and discussed in this forum.Ī partial fix (supposedly) from WD for the security issue is to use a new version of the Security (lock drive) program after first erasing the drive. What you lose with not having WD Utils is the Erase function. Uninstalling the WD Utilities worked perfectly for me with a WD Yellow 2Tb drive.
