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Question

Maxtor 3 Ext HD Secure Zone

Jul 26, 2016 10:18AM PDT

I set 50gb in the Secure Zone with password that somehow I cannot repeat thus it is locked. Is there any way of deleting/emptying its contents or the secure Zone as it stands and re establish it with another?

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There's the lesson
Jul 26, 2016 10:38AM PDT

Such zones by this and other makers are not safe enough without backups. As a Windows PC (or even other systems) this is how most figure out we can't go without backup copies.

To recover would have you asking Maxtor or who owns it now. If it was mine I would have wiped the drive, forgot the Secure Zone and made it a normal volume that is easy to backup.

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There's the lesson
Jul 26, 2016 10:45AM PDT

Is there any way I can wipe the secure zone itself ?

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I do that by wiping the drive.
Jul 26, 2016 10:54AM PDT

Remember that I know PC users backup. They can't avoid it so here we can wipe the drive, create a new partition scheme and copy back from backups.