Hi, I need to read the vendor track on a Seagate momentus 7200.4 ST9500420SA searched up and down this forum and the internet, and didn't find an answer, so please some one help me

What is the purpose?

My drive got locked. After i moved it to the second bay on my laptop.

No help from any one ? please point me in the right direction ....

Do you know the password?
Have you tried moving it back to the other bay?
Did you set a password when it was connected to the other bay?

You are unlikely to get a answer on this as we can not verifiy if you own the drive or not?
If we did help you bypass the password & it was then found out it was not your drive we would be commiting an offence.

If you dont know the password then I would advise you to take it to a dr pro who has the equipment & knowledge to do this.
Be advised they will ask for proof of ownership, sign a weaver & maybe your address details to keep for their records.


Loki

Agree. This wave of requests for help in password / security circumvention is annoying ( = pissing off, to say it all ) and personally I smell the sulphur .

P.S. sorry no help.

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What do you mean security circumvention?
BTW, What is worth such security if any poor minded DR Pro can defeat it?

SAjunky

Q. What do you mean security circumvention?
A. Bypassing a BIOS hard drive set password for example

Q. BTW, What is worth such security if any poor minded DR Pro can defeat it?
A. Being a Data Recovery Professional is a specialist field & is a never ending learning career that you dedicate a lot of time, money & effort too.
Their are a lot of script kiddies that pretend to be professionals but they are not.
As you can see by the amount of requests for hdd password removals, the general public do not know how to remove the password & so there for it is adaquate security for the normal person.

If they want better security then all they need to do is research on google & software like Bitlocker & Truecrypt will come up.


Loki

@loki.
It doesn't answer a question regarding poor minded DR Pro defeating security.

And then they wonder why ... and whine....

In many countries it is criminal offence to help ANYBODY IN ANY WAY to access electronic data you don't have the right to / circumvent protections / hack etc. and a forum makes no exception (depending on what happens the consequences can be HEAVY). Same applies to copyrighted materials. So the people that have common sense just don't answer as they don't want unnecessary troubles.

Ohhh either I have matured & I now have common sense because I didnt give a how to answer
or I stll dont have common sense because I answered the post

I'll let you decide

Loki

OK but then... what about the "unnecessary troubles" ?

Think the misses would say that, that decribes me

Loki

It is why I do like BlackST.
He knows it is a criminal offense and he still doing it!
Law in many countries is so obstructive that it makes impossible to comply by normal citizen. Result is that nobody obeys the law. Remember Mosaic law?

Bullshit. The difference is when you come to a registered company and have to sign papers, proof of ownership, give ID and you are responsible if the data given is false. Then if you are asked to unlock , it's not YOUR problem or it is no problem at all if you were asked i.e. from police. Opposite : let's say a thief steal a pc and want to get data but there is a lock somewhere, and formally or informally you reveal or help the way to access data , if the 'damage' is enough or what happens next is enough, and you are traced, you are in deep shit. Needless to say, most 'unlock' requests fall into oblivion when some papers appear...
I agree that sometimes laws are crazy and impossible to be enforced, but there's a limit to everything (luckily or not...).

This is a method invented by lawyers, called shifting responsibility. Response to unjust or inpractical law. I would like to see what "proof of ownership" you do accept, it must be a joke!

Well, like it or not we live in a world that work THAT way at least in this part of planet Earth. If you own a REGULAR company ( I do ) you should know it.
If you don't like the laws, either do a petition and change them or climb up until you are able to make them the way you want, meanwhile there's no solution other than infringe the abovementioned laws or accept them. Not my problem, though.

I accept as a proof of ownership a bill, shipping notice or whatever LEGAL title in THIS country (the home of the ROMAN THEORY OF RIGHTS not by a chance - how do you prove/demonstrate property there ?) or in the EU is. Otherwise, under direct responsibility of the "owner" and with a copy of a valid ID document I accept a signed self-certification leaving me NO responsibility. Everything that potentially can nuke your ass is not a joke. You'll NEVER know who/what are you dealing with until you test directly so, better safe than sorry. .

P.S. this discussion is becoming boring and quickly reaching the border of "obnoxious" area.

P.s. Out of topic.
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Well, it means you accept customers written declaration that he/she is a rightfull owner, not a thug or thief or other scumbag. But when somebody is asking on the forum, this annoying, as it is a thief and robber.

It is why I do like BlackST.