hitachi 5k500 password

[cetverooki]

Hi to all

I have hitachi 5k500 laptop hdd with pasword. I do not care about data on it and have no need for it.

Is there a way to reset password (i did find that there is reset for pata disk but for sata i could not find)?

i have no access to password and user that has locked it is no longer reacheable.

[loki]

You wont be able to do it yourself as you would need specialist hardware that costs thousands of $$$$$ or you could take it to a data recovery company and ask them to do it for you but it would still cost more than getting a new hard drive.


Loki

[fzabkar]

It won't help you, but this is how you do it with Salvation Data's HD Doctor for Hitachi.

http://replay.web.archive.org/200901222 ... itachi.pdf

http://www.salvationdata.com/blog/hdd-r ... ols-10052/

I don't know how much the Hitachi tool costs, but the equivalent HD Doctor for Seagate costs around US$600. You can sometimes pick them up in a used condition for $300.

[dick]

The post by fzabkar refers to the proceedure for an old IC25N30ATCS04-0 Hitachi model from about 2005 era. Not much use really!