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IowaCowboy
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Getting rid of junkware on an external hard drive

I have a Western Digital External My Passport hard drive and it has a virtual CD with junk ware that I'd like to get rid of. I've tried the Erase Disk in the Mac Disk utility but to no avail.

The reason I want to get rid of it is I never use it and it makes it difficult to eject the disk when I want to unplug it from the computer (I have to drag both drives to the trash and one unmounts and the virtual CD with the junkware keeps remounting).

This is on a Mac operating system.
DiskDrive
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Re: [Help] Getting rid of junkware on an external hard drive

If it was anything like a drive I had from them a few years back, you can't get rid of the virtual CD as it's rendered in the firmware of the device, not on the disk itself.

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This Knowledgebase article explains how to disable (hide) the Virtual CD:

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