ok let me go into better detail.
I know its either a hard drive or windows problem because I pulled the drive and put it into my machine. heres the wierd part, If I opened it like it was a slave drive it would show up and I could access the file. If I try to boot into the drive it goes into the boot loop. This makes me believe its a windows problem.
When I try to use a windows disk to repair it asks for a password on the hard drive..NOT bios. its not the bios thats locked its the physical drive. I need an admin password. I have all administrator passwords, they dont work. This hard drive pre dates our IT people so they dont have a password either. now onto our IT guy
We are trying to get out from under him, he doesnt get on top of our issues in any thing even resembling a timely manner, the only reason hes still on staff is because he sold us a cisco phone system and we cant afford to hire anyone else to get the thing up and running. Its taken him 4 months to do a job he says he can do in 3 days. Hes slow, he always has an excuse as to why something doesn't work. He tries to act like we don't know what we are doing or that we are wrong even though we can show him point blank its the system that not working, all in all he sucks. I think its because we are a VERY small company (two offices) and he waaay under charged us and so he brushes us off for his "high paying" clients. Hes not stupid I just think he doesn't really care about us.
So I have been taking care of most of our day to day needs because If I call him it will be days if not weeks for a response. I just need an alternative to get this drive unlocked, not advice on "letting our IT guy do it" If that was a viable option I wouldn't be wasting my time trying to do this. If I have to reformat everything and just do local profiles that fine. This comp is so damn old its not even funny. Worse case scenario I copy local files from it when its loaded as a slave and then format and drop the files back on. I don't want to do this but if I have to than oh well. He can fix it later but that's my LAST option