I have a Western Digital WD1200 IDE 120 gigabyte Caviar SE hard drive that’s locked. Is there a way to unlock it. I realize it has to do with a messed up MBR. Is there a way to refresh the MBR? Or rebuild it? I’m pretty computer savvy, but this is a new one on me. I really don’t want to throw this thing out. The data doesn't mean anything. i just want to use it as a blank primary hard drive. I ran the WD utilities to zero it out and it says ’Drive is locked. Error code 220"
According to the WD website - Error code 220 - Security feature of the drive reports locked status. Some vendors use the security feature to ensure the usage of only specific drives in their system, or the drive may have been locked by a user using a third party utility to enable this feature. The same utility and the original code used to lock the drive are necessary to unlock this drive. Please contact the system vendor for the above-mentioned information.
I have always owned this hard drive. I bought it directly from a store off the shelf. I’ve owned this drive for 5 years. The data is not an issue.
I’m forbidden access to it. I wasn’t using any utility to lock it. I ran the WD utilities and got the code. It spins up and the bios detects it. It’s been formatted over 5 years about 5 times. It ran XP Home. I was trying to zero it out.
Using it now as a primary drive is just principle with me.
. I tried accessing it with a Win98 boot disk Fdisk , Partition Manager, and just outright formatting it using the Windows XP setup. It spins up and the bios detects it. I tried the fixmbr and fixboot commands from the recovery console. AND some MBR utilities. They say there isn’t a drive there. But Bios says there is. Windows PE (run off of a CD) says there isn't.
Any suggestions?