Re: Unused WesternDigital Passport 320GB USB exterrnal HD for sale

2011-03-21 Thread Doron Shikmoni
On 21/03/2011 13:49, Ehud Karni wrote: On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:30:35 Stan Goodman wrote: The manual has a chapter about converting the drive to use with Mac boxes, how to reformat, and how to opt out of the "smart software". What it says one cannot do is avoid the need for a password. I am rethi

Re: Unused WesternDigital Passport 320GB USB exterrnal HD for sale

2011-03-21 Thread Ehud Karni
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:30:35 Stan Goodman wrote: > > The manual has a chapter about converting the drive to use with Mac > boxes, how to reformat, and how to opt out of the "smart software". What > it says one cannot do is avoid the need for a password. I am rethinking > my offer of sale, reformati

Re: Unused WesternDigital "Passport" 320GB USB exterrnal HD for sale

2011-03-20 Thread Stan Goodman
On Sunday 20 March 2011 at 23:25:46 (GMT+2) Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > I don't get it. The software that it's there is just for backup stuff > (there are other utils, hard disk icons etc depending on which > model). You can always use gparted or any other partitioning program > to erase it, so why d

Re: Unused WesternDigital "Passport" 320GB USB exterrnal HD for sale

2011-03-19 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I don't get it. The software that it's there is just for backup stuff (there are other utils, hard disk icons etc depending on which model). You can always use gparted or any other partitioning program to erase it, so why do you want to sell it? Hetz 2011/3/19 Stan Goodman > I bought this devi

Unused WesternDigital "Passport" 320GB USB exterrnal HD for sale

2011-03-19 Thread Stan Goodman
I bought this device a week or so ago, not realizing that it has some Windows-oriented password protection software imbedded in it in an invisible partition that seems to occupy about 2MB. I do not want to fiddle with it, and would like to sell it cheap. The listed price for it is NIS300; I pai