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Products => Storage => Topic started by: mamagear3 on October 31, 2013, 02:20:17 PM

Title: Can I recover or not?
Post by: mamagear3 on October 31, 2013, 02:20:17 PM
I wanted to remove encryption from my Buffalo external hard drive.  I was using the Secure Lock Manager Easy software that came with my hard drive.  I opened the software, clicked Disable encryption, and it did it!

MUCH TO MY SURPRISE my hard drive was now empty!  There were no warnings that this would format my drive!!!

I am using file recovery software with some success.  I can recover files--but I can not view them.  I'm assuming the recovered files are still encrypted.

Is there a way to decrypt these files??  or are they forever lost?

Title: Re: Can I recover or not?
Post by: davo on November 01, 2013, 04:32:52 AM
It does actually warn you, not once, not twice but 3 times that the data will be erased.
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