I have several SanDisk flash drives that I can’t use because I’ve forgotten the passwords. I’d like to open them and delete or move the contents. Failing that, I want to destroy the drives or make them unusable. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Destroying then would be easy and straightforward. And they are not expensive. That would be my suggestion.
I don't see any success in trying to open them and without the passwords.............
Ian
I don't see any success in trying to open them and without the passwords.............
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What did you use to set the passwords originally?
Is there data on the flash drives that you need to recover?
If not, can you not just erase the flash drive completely or does having a password set prevent this?
I use flash drives as temporary storage, usually to move large files from one computer to another so I never bother with passwords for them.
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