WD drives and copy protection?

tomos · 22 Sep 2009 at 09:30

i know WD drive owners had probs with the WD enclosures blocking transfer of avis, mp3s etc. Do the internal drives have this junk on them also?

I want a new drive and am looking at the 2TB one for media storage (prefer WD drives to others manufs) but wary of this potential copy protection junk

Tomsk · 22 Sep 2009 at 09:38

Internal drives dont' have any anti-piracy software on them.

tomos · 22 Sep 2009 at 09:44

thought so but wanted to make sure

would seem like a stupid move tbh since people wouldn't buy em. got to wonder why they did it for their ext drives though

tomos · 23 Sep 2009 at 12:38

well, got it just now. shame the 2TB drive were double the price

Greenlizard0 · 23 Sep 2009 at 18:59

Really? You couldn't back up your own err back ups of cds and stuff? :/

tomos · 23 Sep 2009 at 19:08

i have all my DVDs stored in a disk case type thing. i keep the boxes stored separately. once this is done, i can rip em, convert to x264 which in some cases will improve quality and store loads on there. my old HD-DVDs i'll rip as is and leave the BDs out of it.

at least, that's the plan. i'm doing a full format and oh my god is it taking eons!

reflux · 23 Sep 2009 at 19:09

iirc this piracy prevention was only on their networked hard disks.

tomos · 23 Sep 2009 at 19:36

seems to be the case.

16% done so far ffs! :mad:

i just freaked out when i noticed i have about 7TB of storage now - not including pron

AbsenceJam · 23 Sep 2009 at 20:04

Do a quick format, full is just a waste of time as it only adds chkdsk which isn't much good.

tomos · 23 Sep 2009 at 20:39

i always do one first time round. just forgot how long it takes. last drive i had was a TB and set it off before going to bed.

RussD · 26 Sep 2009 at 22:09

Allways do a Full Format on New Drives. Beware if U don't. Sooner or later if you do a Quick it will revert back to RAW state and u will lose everything on it.

AbsenceJam · 26 Sep 2009 at 22:28

RussD said:
Allways do a Full Format on New Drives. Beware if U don't. Sooner or later if you do a Quick it will revert back to RAW state and u will lose everything on it.

Don't post nonsense. The ONLY difference between a quick and full format is that full scans the partition with chkdsk.

tomos · 26 Sep 2009 at 22:45

yea RussD, where the hell did you hear that carp? i always check new drives for errors hence doing it all in one go