[ltp] Thinkpad 760XL - Locked Drive

[Eben King]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Adam Southerland wrote:

> >On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Adam Southerland wrote:
> >
> > > A Friend has given me a drive he bought with a laptop. The drive is 
> >locked
> > > (the ATA Specification of Locked - Firmware, not Laptop BIOS)
> > >
> > > Is there a way I can boot to the Floppy drive without it requesting the
> > > harddrive password? (Currently it looks at the HD first and asks for a
> > > password; even though the Floppy is set to boot first.)
> > >
> > > I have a utility that should be able to clear/remove the password if I 
> >can
> > > get it to boot.
> >
> >How on earth did he wind up with a locked drive that's not from a hot
> >laptop?
> >
> 
> It may not be a hot drive... Could be someone setting the password and 
> forgetting, or something I have heard alot in the forums is the drive may 
> lock for no reason.

I assumed there were good, valid reasons -- that's why I asked before 
accusing.

> Last Week at an OBA (Legal) Conference I spoke with a representative of 
> Vogon (I think thts right) - Data Recovery and Computer forensiks (can't 
> spell right now (3 hrs sleep))

Better Vogons than Dentrassis.

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