Locked Hard Drives??

TheLow1 · January 20th, 2001, 03:58 PM

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?

January 21st, 2001, 05:17 PM

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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January 21st, 2001, 06:04 PM

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 · January 21st, 2001, 11:53 PM

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<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? </font>

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

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January 22nd, 2001, 12:20 AM

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

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crtlaltdel · January 23rd, 2001, 01:18 PM

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 · January 28th, 2001, 06:44 PM

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<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?

January 20th, 2001, 03:58 PM	#1
TheLow1 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Ocean Slime, CA Posts: 389	Locked Hard Drives?? 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?

January 23rd, 2001, 01:18 PM	#6
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January 21st, 2001, 05:17 PM	#2
MacGyver Guest Posts: n/a	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? ------------------ If it ain't broke, and you try to fix it anyway, then it WILL need fixing!

January 21st, 2001, 06:04 PM	#3
SiCkNuT Guest Posts: n/a	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. ------------------ [ i N S A N i T Y 2 0 0 1 ]

January 22nd, 2001, 12:20 AM	#5
SiCkNuT Guest Posts: n/a	Hehehe yeah, 4.3 gig notebook HDDs are hardly classified as junk! ------------------ [ i N S A N i T Y 2 0 0 1 ]