Hey guys,

I notice that the forum recommends an unlocking service that costs ~$50 (or roughly the cost of getting a whole nother drive from new egg!)

Why cant we use something like this:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Har ... lock.shtml

That i found after a 30 second google search, im sure there are others. I found a free one, but i think it only works with seagate.

Opinions?

Abe

The one we've been using is only $40 if you want to retain the data (which we used to want to do). $5 if you don't care. If that one is free, go nuts.

$5 if we dont care about losing our music library? i didnt know this. looks like ill be doing the z3 upgrade this week!

Right. The expensive one allows you to retain all the information on the drive. When the others unlock it, you lose the contents of the drive.