HDD GURU FORUMS

Sorry if this is a stupid question -- I searched and didn't find anything relevant.

I'm looking for a way to enter the ATA password for SATA drives that are in an external USB enclosure. I know the password, so I am not looking for a way to bypass it. I'm looking for a way to do this under windows.

I can always disable the password by directly connecting the drive to the SATA bus, before I put the drive in the enclosure, which is what I do at the moment, but it would save me a lot of time if I didn't have to remember to do this.

Thanks for any advice.

Lev

Hi, You could use Victoria for Windows versions 4.3 or 4.46b

Thanks for the advice.

I tried to use victoria (4.46b). It saw USB drive (in API mode), but although there is indeed a place to type a password, however all the buttons are greyed out with the heading "Security manager (disabled in API)". In the PIO mode I was unable to get victoria to see the drive at all. Am I doing something wrong?

Lev

levsb

why from windows, you can use the victoria from hiren bootable cd and disable the password
better/safer

sometimes windows is stupid dealing with such problems like this

I think you will never be able to do that under USB.
USB doesn't support all of the ATA standards. USB will allow only read/write operation nad you will have trouble even getting S.M.A.R.T. data, so just attach the drive to the SATA port and forget USB.