Need help unlocking Toshiba MK5075GSX

[angelsff]

Greetings!

I have a Toshiba MK5075GSX HDD which was a part of my Toshiba Satellite C855. Now, my laptop has been BIOS password protected, right up until the moment it died on me, last summer. The problem is that I'm left with a locked HDD.
To clarify: Several times during power-up, the laptop did ask for a HDD password, and I just typed the BIOS password I had set up, and the system booted without any issues. But since the laptop died, when I transfer the drive to another laptop, it asks for a HDD password. And when I enter the password I used on my old laptop, it says the password's incorrect.
I tried installing the drive is several other laptops, with no success, they all asked for a password. When I put the drive into HDD enclosure, for USB use, it is recognized in the Disk Management, however it says that it's "Unknown", giving me the option to Initialize Disk. However it try to initialize it, the window named "Virtual Disk Manager" says that the device is not ready.

Whatever the reasons, I wish to unlock the drive, or extract the data, without having to pay for an expensive data extraction service. So, my best guess is that I need my drive unlocked. I tried contacting Toshiba, but they weren't helpful, at all.
Is there a way for me to unlock the drive, and still preserve my data?
Any and all details would be helpful. Thanks in advance.

[mr_spokk]

Hi, Contact Nikola @ https://hddsurgery.com/data-recovery
They can help you out...

[fzabkar]

Try ZU:
http://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?f=95&t=166

[angelsff]

I've contacted HDDSurgery, and I'm still awaiting their response.

Thanks for the tips, I will try ZU and get back to everyone with the results.