locked hard drive, how to unlock??

[slimbim]

I got a hard drive from one of my friends. He brought it home from work I think. Well, I think there was this locking program loaded to it, that when booting up, it forces the bios to see it only as a 20 MB drive, when it is actually a 30 GB drive! I tried data eraser software and everything, but since it detects it as 20MB drive, it will only erase everything in that 20 MB. Is there any way to delete everything completely off the disk, so that my bios will actually see it as 30GB?

Thanks alot for another help.

Slim

 

[sohcrates]

a really big magnet?

but seriously , what brand is the drive? try scrounging around the manufacturers website for tools to "unlock" the drive

 

[Edski]

Does your bios even support that size drive?

 

[warlord]

why doesn't he take it back to work, they should have the software.

 

[wyvrn]

<< why doesn't he take it back to work, they should have the software. >>



Because they would arrest him?

 

[warlord]

thats pretty much what I figured, and why I suspect we haven't seen anymore replies from slimbim.

 

[Nolte]

Search IBM?s web site for a utility named WIPE. It will take care of any software on there.

 

[Stanman]

Wipe will clear the entire drive, there is also one called Zap that clears the first 128k which includes any partition info or &quot;disk manager software&quot; Zap just takes a second where Wipe takes as long or longer than formating. If you cannot find either one of these LMK and i will send it to you.