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  1. This is related to my post http://www.hak5.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=17125 but a different approach. Someone told me there could very well be an undocumented command hidden in WD software to make the disk behave normally. I asked him how to discover such commands but the reply was: "No way can you discover this command on your own w/o the right hardware & software. I will never discuss details on how to hack such internals. (...). Could I do it myself? Eventually, but it makes no sense to do so, and I doubt that anybody else would even entertain the thought of trying". So I though I would ask here: how do you discover such hidden commands? Is it some kind of brute force approach, you tell the device 'a', then 'b', then 'c', etc., then 'aa', then 'ab', etc.? Your program listens to the answers and takes note of any unusual answer - anything which is not 'command not found'? I can code (C/C++ and Perl) but I can't code if I don't know what I'm supposed to tell the computer to do. So any link towards that kind of information would be very welcome.
  2. Thanks Charles, but this guy is just parroting the instructions WD give. Following these steps the VCD would become hidden, not deleted. And the other issues would remain.
  3. Western Digital used to make good external hard disks. They came with crap on them but this crap was easy to delete. Not anymore. Now the "My Passport Essential" and other new external hard disks come with crapware on a partition which pretends to be a read-only CD but isn't. It is just a partition but all my attempts at deleting it have failed. Linux tools all answer that the partition is read-only (fdisk, sfdisk, parted, gparted, u3-tool). Windows tools vary in their failure, some fail to see the disk at all, U3uninstaller.exe said there was no U3 device, DBAN only deleted the contents of the normally writable partition, etc. It is not read-only in the sense that it can be upgraded by WD. If it can be upgraded it means it can be edited, and if it can be edited it means it can be deleted, right? This VCD partition takes up 700MB, and not only does it mean one less movie I can store on this disk, it also means I cannot plug the disk into my VCR. Other usb data storage work fine but on this one the VCD gets in the way and my VCR won't have anything to do with it. Nor my camera. WD offers a way to hide this VCD partition but this does not solve the problem. You have to hide it on every pc you plug the disk into and you can't hide it from VCRs or cameras. Any ideas, please?
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