Ok gang, here’s the problem. I got a Dell Latitude LS model PP01S in the shop. The guy wants to have the current O/S wiped and reinstalled with XP home. He says that the lappy has 2K on it, and that he cannot remember what the password is to log in. (Yeah sounds fishy. Might be stolen. Going to call the police in the morning and run serials.) Anyhow, powered it on before doing anything, and right after post, it asks for a password. Looks like a bios password. I called the guy to see if he knew what it was, but I got no one on the phone. I decide to pull the hard drive and connect it to our shop machine. Our shop machine booted and detected the drive fine. I went into my computer to see what was on it, but the drive did not show up. I then went to disk management, and it did not even show up there. So then I went to device manager, and it was there. I shut the machine down and downloaded diags for it. BTW it is an IBM Travelstar model DJSA-220. I ran checks on it, but received the error “Device is password protected” GREAT the drive has a password on it. Not a boot sector password, but a hardware one. I downloaded http://rockbox.haxx.se/lock.html but it did not work. Any ideas on what to do?