Re: HDD Password.

If its that 'platter lock' thing IBM uses on their laptops, IBM says you have to throw away the drive.
You might try Ontrack, the data recovery outfit. I read somewhere that they have, or have access to, a hardware pod of some sort that will let them tranfer the drive image to another drive while at the same time removing the lock.

This would let them recover the data on the drive, but the old physical drive itself is usless as they can't remove or read that lock. Apperantly they can remove the lock in the image data stream somehow.

Jim Gribbin

----- Original Message -----
From: levi <levi@akgeeks.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 3:27 pm
Subject: HDD Password.

> We have A computer in our shop that is in for data recovery,
> because they
> forgot the password for thier harddrive. Our issue is, we can't
> find a way
> around this without frying the data. We can't run fdisk, cfdisk,
> fixmbr...or anything else that we can think of, under Linux or
> Windows. I thought
> perhaps changing the drive pe to "007" (ntfs) in cfdisk, or fixing
> the MBR
> would work, but we cant access the drive, on the local machine or
> by =
> pulling
> it and slaving it onto a workbench computer... I'm at a total
> loss, and =
> was
> hoping perhaps someone had experience with this. Any input would be
> appreciated...
> Thank You,
> Levi
>
>
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