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Unable to reformat an Iomega Ego Encrypt drive on a Mac

Unable to reformat an Iomega Ego Encrypt drive on a Mac

One of my clients has an Iomega Ego Encrypt 320GB portable hard drive.

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"Perhaps you're reformatting the ""encrypted"" portion of the drive? Like clearing out a TrueCrypt volume.

According to

AES 128-bit hardware-encrypted portable hard drive

I would guess that it can't be done. If the drive is encrypting data OTF as it writes it to the disk you're out of luck."