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Question

Completely format password protected power-on external HDD?

May 1, 2012 9:29AM PDT

I bought a Buffalo hds-ph320u2-us external hard drive that requires a password to mount, but this hard drive does not support Mac OS X 10.6 and later. It works on my Windows 7 pc and i know that I can access it through VMWare or BootCamp, but I want a way to access it without any of those. Is it possible to bypass or format the external hard drive so I don't need to enter a password in order to mount it on my Mac?

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PS. Just a tip.
May 1, 2012 9:50AM PDT

Try this on the Buffalo tech forum.

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hmm
May 1, 2012 11:39AM PDT

yea, i asked that on yahoo answers
the link you showed me did not help b/c i want this to work on MAC and want to get rid of the password

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I didn't think it would help
May 1, 2012 1:20PM PDT

I thought you should have asked this on the Buffalo forum. I don't have this drive to try the usual tools.
Bob