Hard Drive Passwords
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Name: tviner1
Date: September 10, 2005 at 06:01:39 Pacific
Subject: Hard Drive PasswordsOS: n/aCPU/Ram: n/a |
Comment: For some reason my hard drive seems to have set its own password. Its been working fine on an IBM Thinkpad for some time until the system failed. I've removed the drive and placed it into an external device and I now can't get any machine to recognise anything other than the drive manufacturer and size. Is there any way of removing a password from a drive? As I haven't set this up on the drive I'm beginning to wonder if this was set by the manufacturer to prevent relocation of the drive to another system, but as its my data!!!!! Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Response Number 1
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Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: September 10, 2005 at 07:41:14 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)"I now can't get any machine to recognise anything other than the drive manufacturer and size" Not sure what else you'd like the box to recognize. I've never heard of a HD being passworded. But I learn something almost every day.
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.M2
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Response Number 3
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Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: September 10, 2005 at 09:56:01 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)altavista is your friend. http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=IBM+THINKPAD+hard+disk+password+removal&kgs=1&kls=0 Joe does it for half the price of nortek. And you don't need to send him the laptop.
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.M2
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Response Number 4
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Name: DAVEINCAPS
Date: September 10, 2005 at 16:04:52 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Did the drive ever ask for a password or are you assuming that's the case because you can't access it? Exactly what happens when you try to access the drive? The way a drive is partitioned depends on how the bios sees it. Often one bios may see a HD differently than another. So if you move a drive to another computer and the bios on that computer see the drive differently it may not be able to decipher the partition. Most of the time moving the drive causes no problems, but occasionally it does. I've noticed it more with brand name PCs--compaq, IBM, HP--than generic. Check how the laptop drive is identifed in cmos/bios setup. If you can determine the C/H/S settings for it on the IBM you may be able to manually configure it on whatever computer it's connected to now.
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