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      10-11-2020, 02:40 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by Anthony1s View Post
I did skim an attempt at this the other day, they said the HDD is password protected from access. So the bootloader/bios (whatever BMW calls it) stores a password it uses to access the drive. I suppose the drive would be encrypted. Which would prevent DD and Gparted from being used. If you can't DD the drive, then nothing is gonna work.

The only option would be to format a new drive with ISTA. BUT ISTA is probably programmed to create the same partitions as OEM. So any additional space on the new drive would be inaccessible.
What a pain, I guess I could mod my ipod and have it to have 256 gbs or just stick to using usb instead
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