HITACHI LifeStudio Desk Plus - External HDD issue

I just bought this great 1TB external hdd about a month ago and I'm very excited about it, except for a small issues that is starting to ruin that experience for me...

This hdd has preinstalled the "LifeStudio" software, a piece of soft that can organize all your media files (cooliris style) and its also used for backing up your files to an encrypted Hitachi online server, that's the feature I'm most interested about. This soft its not written on the actual hdd, its part of its internal firmware, so it can't be removed in any way.


But, it can be disabled... and that's what i did... here we go:

The LifeStudio soft appears as a VCD (VirtualCD) when you plug in your external hdd, I have install it on the first use and after that i checked an option to hide the VCD so it no longer appears in Windows Explorer

After a while, my PC crashed and i lost a bunch of programs installed, among with the LifeStudio soft. And now, when i connect my external hdd, the VCD image with the soft its no longer showing in My Computer... that means that i don't have the option to turn it back on anymore...

I have contacted the Hitachi Support and after a long exchange of email, they finally gave up and told me to send hdd to warranty, a thing that i don't want to do because i have a lot of sensitive data on it and i don't want those IT guys to look into it.


Here's my request: If someone has or will ever buy this kind of hdd, any hdd from the Life Studio series should work, i want to ask you to make an image of that VCD and to please share it with me, so i can install it and re-activate that stupid option... that's the only way that i can get the soft back.

thx in advance @ anyone that can help me solve this annoying issue

hey man, thanks a lot for taking the time to read this topic, i didn't have any hope for this soft no more, but guess i was wrong

and sorry for the delayed answer, i was away in vacation for a few days

but, when i click that megaupload link, i don't get any file to download... just the homepage of them


edit/ after a long time of research, i finally got a small piece of soft that can active the VCD, if anybody, anytime will need it, just PM me

maranello said:

hey man, thanks a lot for taking the time to read this topic, i didn't have any hope for this soft no more, but guess i was wrong

and sorry for the delayed answer, i was away in vacation for a few days

but, when i click that megaupload link, i don't get any file to download... just the homepage of them


edit/ after a long time of research, i finally got a small piece of soft that can active the VCD, if anybody, anytime will need it, just PM me

Hi,can you send me please that small piece of soft that can activate the VCD.I've the same problem with Hitachi LifeStudio.My email DELETED Thank you in advance.

here you go man, PM sent

Thanks for the file

rtexcs said:

maranello said:

hey man, thanks a lot for taking the time to read this topic, i didn't have any hope for this soft no more, but guess i was wrong :d

and sorry for the delayed answer, i was away in vacation for a few days

but, when i click that megaupload link, i don't get any file to download... Just the homepage of them


edit/ after a long time of research, i finally got a small piece of soft that can active the vcd, if anybody, anytime will need it, just pm me

hi,can you send me please that small piece of soft that can activate the vcd.i've the same problem with hitachi lifestudio.my email DELETED thank you in advance.

hi! It sounds like i have the same problem, could you please send me the same thing? my email DELETED Thanks!!

i have sent you an email guys, hope it will solve your issue