Home > Questions

What To Do If I Forget The Password To My G-Drive?

i forgot the password to my G-drive hardware, so I am unable to restore my information. Is there a way I can create a new password? Or how can I access my G-Drive?

Best Answered by

iBoysoft author Vain Rowe

Vain Rowe

Answered on Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Hi there, since you have forgotten the password to your G-drive, the only solution you can try is to format your drive so that you can reuse it on your computer. However, with the drive formatted, you have no access to your data because formatting wipes everything on your drive.

Here I'm gonna show you how to format an external hard drive on Mac:

Step 1: Connect the external hard drive with your Mac, and the computer will mount your external hard drive.

Step 2: Launchpad → Other → Disk Utility, and click the Disk Utility.

Step 3: Choose your target external hard drive or volume, and click Erase on the top.

Step 4: Edit the disk name, and select a format and a scheme.

Step 5: Click Erase to format your target disk.

Step 6: Click Done, and congratulations that you have finished all the steps.

After the formatting process, you can then use the G-drove on your Mac for any storage work!

People Also Ask

Read More Questions

Read More Advice From iBoysoft's Computer Experts

Couldnt open device 69877

Fix 'Couldn't Open Device 69877' on Mac When Erasing Drives

Solutions to fix 'Error: -69877: Couldn't open device' in Terminal or 'Couldn't open device.: (-69877)' in Disk Utility when erasing Mac hard drive or external hard drive, USB, SD card, etc.

sd card

Learn more about SD Card, Mini SD Card & Micro SD Card

An overview about SD card, including what's an SD card, how to use an SD card, how to format SD card, and differences between types of SD cards.