A short while ago I bought an old Siemens laptop, model Scenic Mobile 510. For 8 euros. In working order no less. The only problem is that the HDD (a Toshiba MK6015MAP) has a password (seemingly both user and master). Sure, I could wipe the password along with the data, but interesting software can sometimes lie in such forgotten PCs, so I'd rather take a peek before it's gone. So far, I have tried connecting the HDD to another PC and accessing the contents from HBCD's Mini Windows XP (no luck, the drive shows up only in Device Manager, which claims it contains no volumes) and disabling the password request with ATAPWD (rejected the default master password of 32 spaces, likely means that the master password is not default either).
The closest I've found to a solution is
this article, but it seems to deal with Western Digital drives, and I have no idea if the MHDD scripts involved would work with the Toshiba drive.
Interestingly enough, the laptop refuses to boot from anything else than the hard drive when the HDD is connected.
Any advice on this?