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Seagate HDD password lock out

April 12th, 2007, 15:04

Hello there,
Can anyone help please, my acer laptop is locked out with a HDD password.
It's seagate Momentus 60 GB. Does any one know the default password or a way round it. Many thanks

April 12th, 2007, 15:18

1. PC3000
2. AFF Repair Station

April 13th, 2007, 3:31

If this is a unique case it's much cheapper to use AFF.

Seagate HDD password lock out

April 13th, 2007, 5:18

Hi guys, thanks for your advice.
will try these options, In the mean time does anyone know the master password, as I noticed on a previous post a user had a similar problem and a master password was available. Thanks guys.

April 13th, 2007, 11:20

Hi guys, Not having much luck so far, AFF doesn't support Seagate Momentus hard drives.

:(

April 13th, 2007, 11:25

Then the only option is really using PC3K.
If you don't have it, contact someone that has it.

April 13th, 2007, 14:19

The dafault hdd master pasword is: "Vendor_name" + XXXX =32 Symbols
Where XXX- stand as alias of "Space", and "Vendor_name" is alias of the name of current vendor :) . Capital letter have matter.
Anyway i do not think this would help since usually laptop change the master pass to some unprinted characters that can't be typed.

April 17th, 2007, 2:27

Hi.Try the master password "seagate+20 space".

Good luck!

April 18th, 2007, 4:27

salvationlaura wrote:Hi.Try the master password "seagate+20 space".

Good luck!

This is not the master password for seagate drives !! .

The right Master password is as Samo said in his hint.
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