You ever had a Iomega Zip Disk with a password protect on it??

Well while roaming around on the net i found a method to break it. (Exploit not discovered by me). the method doesnt use much time and doesnt require the use of a brute force cracker.

1. Insert a blank disk into the zip drive
2. Give this disk a password (it can be any password, as long as you remember it)
3. Using the Ioega toolset, set the zip drive's sleep time to a large value (such as 1 minute)
4. Wait a while until the drive "spins down". You will hear the drive stop spinning.
5. Take a pin or a straighten paper clip and stick it into a hole in the back of the Zip drive. This will manually eject the blank disk.
6. Insert the disk you want to access (the one you don't know the password to)
7. now use the IoMega toolset to remove the password. When prompted for the password use the password from step (2).

Now the disk has had the original password removed just eject the disk and then put it back into the drive type in the password and "Bingo".

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