WD Security is a tool from Western Digital which allows you to add password protection to your hard drives or solid state drives.
With a simple installation of WD Security, these devices can be secured easily. Simply attach your Western Digital drive to a system. The main application will recognize the drives that it supports and display some details about it including the name, storage capacity and an icon.
And you have to unlock it with passwork though you have uninstalled the WD My Passport software from your Mac. To fix that Western Digital My Passport hard drives not working or unlock (only if you know the right password) after Big Sur update, simply download, update, and install the latest WD Discovery Utilities for macOS 11 Big Sur. Try Quick fixes when WD hard drive is not recognized by Mac. A proper connection is the most basic. Once you setup the password, the virtual disk will change to the unlock icon, just double click on it and it will give you the pop up window to unlock it. Erase/reset WD My Passport Drive. Erase (reset) the drive. This will remove the internal key associated to you password and all your data will be unaccessible. You will also lose your partition table and you will need to create a new one (you can use fdisk and mkfs or other utilities to prepare and format the drive). Plug in your drive.
Setting up a password for your drive is a simple task. The program will ask you to enter the same password twice to lock it. Lost and forgotten passwords cannot be retrieved, so make sure you keep it in a safe place. You can have WD Security provide you with a hint.
The level of security provided with WD Security is 256-bit AES encryption so you'll have some protection against anybody attempting to access important files on your storage media.
WD Security 2.0.0.76 on 32-bit and 64-bit PCs
This download is licensed as freeware for the Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system on a laptop or desktop PC from data encryption software without restrictions. WD Security 2.0.0.76 is available to all software users as a free download for Windows.
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- WD Security Download
- Freeware Data Encryption Software
- Major release: WD Security 2.0
- Drive Protection Software