Hitachi notebook 40gb drive locked

[crecomp]

Hi all
just got a drive in for recovery. I have never come accross this sort of problem and have been trying to read upon it as much as possible.

The Pc wont detect the drive in bios or windows.

I am trying to access the drive with copyr and ACR tools, the drive spins up and is detected by both these programs, however i cant create an image as it is all errors.

MHDD is able to find the drive, it spins up normally, i cant hear any clicks or anytinhg like that, when i use MHDD Id it comes back giving me the drive serial no and other basic info and says the drive has a ATA password lock.

I have tried to use the unlock and dispwd but bo luck?

Can smeone please try and assist with how to recover the info from the drive and help me understand why this has happened, ? is it due to a failure with the drive ?or possibly some one has set some password on the drive previously.

Any help will be greatly appreciated

Thank you

[pcimage]

PC3000.

Can easily fix this.

Don't know of any other way, apart from brute force PW progs, which a poor at best, taking weeks/months and maybe getting nowhere.

5 Minute job with PC3000


Sean

[beto]

U can try hot swap

[crecomp]

Thx for the answers, i suspected the answer amy be a PC 3000 and was hoping for a solution not involoving this as i dont have one.

I have been speaking with different firms who have them and they say thye are useless in these sorts of jobs and thay are only really good for cases with the Maxtor 40gb drives and are useless for other types of drives and repairs, would love if someone can clarify if this is the case or infom me otherwise.

Thank you for all the help

[quasimodo]

If you buy the original PC3000 from acelab, it will work for most drive models. Pirated copy may only have limited functonality. Maybee the did not use original version.

[pepe]

Then those firms are really not aware of the capabilities of this tool
Or they doesn't really have it.
pepe

[pcimage]

Pepe,

Agree.

PC3000 works with nearly all drives I come across.

Excellent product.

[rameez]

The best product i have ever seen pc3000 pci works with mostly all hdd not just with 40gb maxtor , and it can unlock pwd drives in seconds piece of cake for pc3k .