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Basically we are know that "How to Unlock Western Digital drive on WINDOWS" because hard disk unlock driver given only for Windows OS . Now We Learn that "HOW TO UNLOCK Western Digital DRIVE ON LINUX" :)

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Basically we are know that "How to Unlock Western Digital drive on WINDOWS" because hard disk unlock driver given only for Windows OS . Now We Learn that "HOW TO UNLOCK Western Digital DRIVE ON LINUX" :)

  1. sg-3 utils install According your Distro (http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg3_utils.html)
    DownloadLink - http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/sg3-utils_1.45-0.1_amd64.deb

  2. sudo apt-get install python

  3. sudo apt-get install python3

  4. sudo apt-get install gparted

  5. sudo apt-get upgrade

  6. dmesg | grep -i scsi or sudo dmesg | grep -i scsi (IN this COMMAND : Check your harddisk , Where is [sdb/sdc/sdd] Connected with you disk) For EXAMPLE:-sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk (At here "sdb" is your disk)

  7. select path (like "cd Desktop/...") where you have "cookpw.py" (without Quotes) in your System or drive .

  8. chmod u+x cookpw.py

  9. ./cookpw.py YOUR_HARDDISK_PASSWORD >password.bin

  10. Now it is not necessary , if you want to check harddisk path so check with command (gparted) or (sudo gparted)

  11. sudo sg_raw -s 40 -i password.bin /dev/sdb c1 e1 00 00 00 00 00 00 28 00

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