Locked Hard Drives??

[TheLow1]

I bought a few boxes of computer junk just for fun, and found a stack of 4.3GB laptop hard drives but they are password protected, They are IBM drives. Any ideas? http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/smilies/cwm18.gif

[MacGyver]

They are probably protected with some sort of software, possibly a Norton product. Most likely encrypted, so you'll never see the contents within your lifetime. Can you format them and reuse them?

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If it ain't broke, and you try to fix it anyway, then it WILL need fixing!

[SiCkNuT]

You may need to perform a low level format of the HDDs as the password lock program may be stored somewhere in the master boot record.

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[NPaladin]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by TheLow1:
I bought a few boxes of computer junk just for fun, and found a stack of 4.3GB laptop hard drives but they are password protected, They are IBM drives. Any ideas? http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/smilies/cwm18.gif </font>

I could use a couple...how many you got? I can get the password off.



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[SiCkNuT]

Hehehe yeah, 4.3 gig notebook HDDs are hardly classified as junk!

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[crtlaltdel]

IBM should have a diag utility that will write zeros to the drive erasing anything on them including the password

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[TheLow1]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by NPaladin:
I could use a couple...how many you got? I can get the password off.

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I got two of them for sure IBM Travelstar drives they are both 4.86GB a piece. How much you give me for them?