don’t get suckered into paying for a program, or paying someone to get your data back (unless you have references on them from somebody you trust.) especially when you have opportunists trying to sell THEIR software to “help” users recover their data.Īll i can say on that, if you came to this article looking for answers to data recovery: there are some REALLY good open-source programs out there to do the job. if you go to the forums listed on the subject, it’s just more confusing. It took me 4 or five letters, and a phone call from Western Digital to get this straightened out. Most likely a function built-into the firmware, and why it’s important to FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS and UPDATE YOUR FIRMWARE before turning off the Smartware Virtual CD. Which is just about as good as having it “gone.” there must be some other control factor, since you can re-initiate the function with the Virtual CD Manager. disabling the VD means that it doesn’t mount when you attach the drive. since it is on it’s own “mini-drive” or chip ….
whereas “disabling” the smartware virtual drive, would be of no use if it was ON a partition of the main drive - because that would still be taking up space and an inherent vulnerability. except much smaller, since it only has to hold 300-700 mb. it’s like having a usb flash drive sitting in the casing along with the main drive of the passport. That’s how they do it - not from some miracle way of programming an impenetrable partition. It is a separate drive inside the same casing and using the same usb channel.īut it is NOT on the drive that you use for storage. First thing, is that the Smartware virtual CD is NOT a partition.
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