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How do I unlock a hard drive that asks for a password?
Hi,
I have been reviewing past posts and have had no luck in unlocking the hard drives in question. These are 40GB Hitachi Travelstar IDE laptop drives. Each drive shows a locked status when pulled and put into another laptop. These are true hard drive passwords and are not bios passwords. I am trying to refurbish 4 Fujitsu Lifebooks that were given to me. I'm not concerned about data, I'd just like to be able to use these drives. I have gone out to hdd.unlock and they are not supporting Hitachi as of yet. Same story with AFF on the web. I have been reading about atapwd and all sorts of things to try. This is my last ditch effort. Does anybody have something that would be worth a shot in making these drives usable? I'm going to install XP Pro and use these in my business if I can get them up and running. I've got hours and hours into research on unlocking HDDs and I can't seem to get anywhere.
Thanks!
I have been reviewing past posts and have had no luck in unlocking the hard drives in question. These are 40GB Hitachi Travelstar IDE laptop drives. Each drive shows a locked status when pulled and put into another laptop. These are true hard drive passwords and are not bios passwords. I am trying to refurbish 4 Fujitsu Lifebooks that were given to me. I'm not concerned about data, I'd just like to be able to use these drives. I have gone out to hdd.unlock and they are not supporting Hitachi as of yet. Same story with AFF on the web. I have been reading about atapwd and all sorts of things to try. This is my last ditch effort. Does anybody have something that would be worth a shot in making these drives usable? I'm going to install XP Pro and use these in my business if I can get them up and running. I've got hours and hours into research on unlocking HDDs and I can't seem to get anywhere.
Thanks!
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nobus
to my knowledge, you cannot unlock them; that is precisely what they were installed for !
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The drives are locked, bu what you actually need is to see if there is a master password that will wipe the data and then give you access. I doubt this is available , since it would bypass some security, but that is what you need , since you do not actually need to access the old data.
I hope this helps !
I hope this helps !
i object i posted the same : they cannot be unlocked
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