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How to reuse an encrypted old HDD with forgotten pass? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca
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I'd like to repurpose an HDD so I have space to download all the tv shows I want to aquire as a cable cutter.

Do I just plug it in and it will Advise me of how to deal with it?

Need those TB for all the junk I wanna torrent

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[โ€“] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 3 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

So it can be overwritten even if its encrypted?

[โ€“] over_clox@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yep, unless it's some crazy hardware level encryption, probably not though. Assuming you're not worried about the data and just want to reuse the drive, just delete the partition(s) and reformat it.

gparted

[โ€“] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I dont care i just want space for new stuff I am quickly running out of disk space for

[โ€“] over_clox@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Heard that!

Earlier this year I was owed $20 for a data recovery, but instead of paying me, they gave me two 4TB hard drives and a 2TB hard drive, all in perfect working order.

Needless to say, I consider their debt fully paid.

I also got a nice pair of shoes out of it too. ๐Ÿ‘

Good luck with your extra storage ๐Ÿคž