Alan Dayley wrote:
If the hardware manufacturer implemented the ATA spec correctly, the
password cannot be bypassed by any normal means. That is, after all,
what the password is supposed to do.
With special knowledge of the specific hard drive model, not just the
manufacturer, the model and even the specific firmware, one can find
where the password is stored and erase or nullify it. Oh, and you
might need special equipment to get to that password on the platters.
To put it another way, throw this hard drive away and go buy a new
one. It'll be less costly of your time.
Alan
I have to agree with Alan on this one. If you have a passworded laptop
hard drive, you might as well toss it and buy a new one. I had one that
I experimented with just to see if I could wipe it out entirely, and had
no such luck. I even exchanged the board with an identical drive, and in
the end ran strontium magnets over the disk itself (like I said, it was
just an experiment - I didn't need the drive, and it was useless to me
as it was)
Big NADA~ The password is stored in a special section of the disk
itself, and is virtually impossible to get rid of by any means available
to ordinary human beings.
Save yourself the headaches, and get a new drive from Newegg or Geeks.
They're cheaper than your wasted time.
Stu
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:51 AM, James Finstrom
<[email protected]> wrote:
Greetings All,
So my dad bought a Hitachi Travelstar 5K100 and apparently the drive is
password locked at a hardware level and requires some sort of voodoo to
report back anything other than vendor data. Anyway I guess there is a byte
code you send to the drive and then a password then you live happily ever
after. Needless to say we don't have the password. I am sure there is data
on the drive but none that we own so don't care if all data is lost. Looking
for suggestions on breaking in or clearing the drive. Again total data loss
is ok. Tried DD in case it was in the partition table and no dice..
--
James Finstrom
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