- Sep 25, 2001
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while cleaning out my closet, i noticed a laptop harddrive (sata).
on it I wrote the laptop it was in and WinXP.
found the laptop (10year old Dell 11z). I took out its current harddrive (win7) and installed the old WinXP one.
the laptop said the hard drive password protected and wouldn't even boot to the operating system. (it booted up on the win7 hard drive fine.)
so it seems like it's hardware password protected?
i dont even remember setting a password for it much less the actual password.
since it's sata, i put it in my desktop thinking that it'll pop up as a drive letter.
my desktop installs the driver and says everything is ok but i dont see the drive letter.
the hard drive is listed fine in Device Manager.
Anyway to see whats on this hard drive?
on it I wrote the laptop it was in and WinXP.
found the laptop (10year old Dell 11z). I took out its current harddrive (win7) and installed the old WinXP one.
the laptop said the hard drive password protected and wouldn't even boot to the operating system. (it booted up on the win7 hard drive fine.)
so it seems like it's hardware password protected?
i dont even remember setting a password for it much less the actual password.
since it's sata, i put it in my desktop thinking that it'll pop up as a drive letter.
my desktop installs the driver and says everything is ok but i dont see the drive letter.
the hard drive is listed fine in Device Manager.
Anyway to see whats on this hard drive?
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