Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
March 12th, 2010, 12:18
I just bought a new replacement hard drive off of Ebay, and when I plug it into my laptop it's asking for an ATA password. Its a Fujitsu drive, I have a feeling I've gotten scammed, but is there a way to reset this? I have used a couple tool's off of the Ultimate Boot CD but have been unable to unlock this drive.
I've been told it's lost forever, I've also been told that I can take the PCB board off the back and plug in some sort of Serial adapter to read the password but that seem's like a lot of work for this..
March 12th, 2010, 12:36
http://www.hddunlock.com/drives/Maybe your drive will be supported.
Use this if you don't need the data on the drive.
March 12th, 2010, 17:47
the drive use to be in a laptop that was using that ATA password option in the bios. They never removed it when they sold it to you. so unfortunately there is no easy way to remove it.
As russ said you can try that link.
Depending on you model there are a bunch of user on here that may be able to remove it for you.
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