SEAGATE HARD DRIVE FROZEN password LOCKED

[craig6928]

so one of my family decided to use a program to delete there hard drive.

but as they where doing the reformat the power went of in the house.

the drive in qeastion is a seagate ST9808211A MOMENTUS

it has got what it says a frozen password locked so i can not unlock it with pc3000

anyone know which pin it is to short out

so i can unlock this drive for them


thank you

[craig6928]

ok i found out that they used a program on hirens bootdisk
and the drive program frozen the hard drive.
so you can not delete it

[pepe]

There should be a solution still...

pepe

[hddguy]

I agree, password should still be possible to remove. Maybe problem is not ATA lock, but other problems causing problems with identification/interface which reports itself as ATA lock? I have seen some cases in the past where bad interface or bad PCB causes bad ID and ATA lock appears to be present....

[dick]

If HDDerase v4 was used then you might want to have a read of the documentation readme file.