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Create a password to keep others from accessing the files on the drive.My Passport, My Book, My Book Duo, WD Backup Drive, easystore Set drive sleep timer (on supported drives).

Manage RAID configuration (For RAID supported models).WD Drive Utilities features the ability to: My Passport, My Book, WD Backup Drive, easystore, WD Elements SE, My Cloud Home Stay up-to-date with software offered by WD and WD partners.Set a password and manage drive settings.For additional assistance with driver issues please refer to Answer ID 13977: How to Install WD Drivers for Windows and macOS for External Drives.

Newer WD SES Drivers are not available for manual download from Western Digital and are only available through Windows and macOS updates. The driver will be automatically installed when the drive is connected and detected by the computer if the drivers are not already installed. Western Digital products use drivers that are provided by the Windows and macOS operating systems. I have no experience with partitioned external drives, so I know not if this could suggest that they are actually two separate physical units (something "hacked" in the SATA-to-USB controller, maybe?) or it is just me unable to properly erase the hard drive and forget about that damn VCD.Obtain software for WD My Passport, My Book and WD Backup Drive.*END One strange thing I noticed is that even when the drive is unmounted, I have the option to mount separately the virtual CD and the drive itself.

I tried with both fdisk and parted, but I may have done something wrong.

I connected that evil drive to my Ubuntu Server 14.04.

I opened Microsoft's System Registry utility to force-allow write on the protected media, and just when I was about to start partying, I realized I failed once again.

with Windows, I launched HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool, as somebody has claimed it to have had success, but I ended up with a "Device media is write-protected" error.

again, I wasted some time with OS X and some built-in command-line tools (which I guess are just the command-line counterpart of the Disk Utility app).

with Windows 10, I tried removing all partitions from the physical drive with the built-in Disk Manager and some other tools like EaseUS Partition Master.

I also tried to change from MBR to GUID and vice-versa with no success.

under OS X, I tried to initialize the physical drive several times with Apple's Disk Utility.

Whenever I plug this device into a computer, there is a virtual CD unit that pops up called "WD Unlocker", and I'm trying to remove it physically, instead of just hiding it (I found many guides on this, and by the way none of them worked). I have a WD My Book (3TB storage, USB 3), and just like many other enthusiast owners of this external drive, I'm trying to get rid of their crapware.