

If using windows 7, right click the file and choose Burn Disc Image) On main menu, choose HDD > Diagnostic > MHDD v4.6. But here I would like to focus on the main question about master password vs user password, so it will help other people which might not have the same use case in all details.

There are more details to my personal use case, which are described in Does HDD password in BIOS affect multiple drives equally?. Before and after and between these steps, one can use hdparm -I /dev/sdx to check the status Is there any way to use the master pw to reset the user pw? Background. The basic commands, on a Linux where the disk is connected: hdparm -user-master m -security-unlock PASS /dev/sdx hdparm -user-master m -security-disable PASS /dev/sdx.
