Patent ID: 11972118
Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A method for restoring a mobile data storage device (DSD) to factory settings, the method executed by a controller of the mobile data storage device and comprising:
receiving, from a host computer system connected to a data path of the mobile DSD, a request to restore the mobile DSD to factory settings;
receiving, from the host computer system, a unique access passcode derived by:
reading, by a computing device that does not include the mobile DSD, a machine readable optical code from an external surface of a housing covering a non-volatile storage medium of the mobile DSD;
determining, responsive to reading the machine readable optical code, the unique access passcode; and
sending, by the host computer system, the unique access passcode to the mobile DSD:

validating, based on an internal security passcode stored in a non-volatile system memory of the mobile DSD, the unique access passcode;
determining that the unique access passcode is valid; and
in response to determining that the unique access passcode is valid, restoring the mobile DSD to factory settings.