I'm in a small yahoo admin group and this is from my email on this issue. I don't know much about password drives
USER
I have a friend who's (former girlfriend) has set a hard drive
password and while i have tried to boot to winternals and to a xp
recovery/boot disc then tried to go to the bios to reset the password.
All has been unsuccessful, If someone knows a tool or a procedure to
try please post it to the site I'm sure all of us will run into this
one day.
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REPLY
If this is an IBM hard drive it isn't going to be possible to get the password removed so long as it really is a HDD password and not a BIOS or login password. We used this at Intel just for this reason, and once the drive password is set, it is a paperweight if you don't know it...even taking the drive out of the machine won't work...
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news....
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USER
Most of the people I know would agree with you.
Just for the info the drive is a Western Digital s/n wm678 067 5653
Model: Cavier 136AA manufactured 1999 35GB
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REPLY
I can't seem to find any info to say that the hard drive has that
capaubilty.
I would think it has some type of efs utitlity like (Encryption Plus
Hard Disk ver ?.?) it has a yellow and black login screen. Does this
sound close or does it have a WD password screen.
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REPLY
I think it is a X-Box Drive.
This link says it does not support locking but I still think you have
one that does. there is a tool for unlocking them but I can't remember
what it's called.
http://xboxdrives.x-pec.com/?
p=drive&did=1886&PHPSESSID=3b586550fe4d637bf27c36d621ffb44f
USER
I have a friend who's (former girlfriend) has set a hard drive
password and while i have tried to boot to winternals and to a xp
recovery/boot disc then tried to go to the bios to reset the password.
All has been unsuccessful, If someone knows a tool or a procedure to
try please post it to the site I'm sure all of us will run into this
one day.
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REPLY
If this is an IBM hard drive it isn't going to be possible to get the password removed so long as it really is a HDD password and not a BIOS or login password. We used this at Intel just for this reason, and once the drive password is set, it is a paperweight if you don't know it...even taking the drive out of the machine won't work...
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news....
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USER
Most of the people I know would agree with you.
Just for the info the drive is a Western Digital s/n wm678 067 5653
Model: Cavier 136AA manufactured 1999 35GB
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REPLY
I can't seem to find any info to say that the hard drive has that
capaubilty.
I would think it has some type of efs utitlity like (Encryption Plus
Hard Disk ver ?.?) it has a yellow and black login screen. Does this
sound close or does it have a WD password screen.
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REPLY
I think it is a X-Box Drive.
This link says it does not support locking but I still think you have
one that does. there is a tool for unlocking them but I can't remember
what it's called.
http://xboxdrives.x-pec.com/?
p=drive&did=1886&PHPSESSID=3b586550fe4d637bf27c36d621ffb44f
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