I work for a school system. We have a lot of Toshiba laptops with this model of hard drive. Recently, a few kids have decided to get into bios and put hdd passwords on the hard drives. Of course they deny it and we are stuck with hdd that cannot be accessed. Is there a cheap or free program out there that will wipe these drives with the HDD password. We do not care about the data. We just want them formatted so we can use them again. I know there are expensive solutions, but I am trying to find ways to save us money. I hook these up to systems with USB and have tried thingd like killdisk and hdderase. nothing seems to allow me to unlock them. I need a way to use these hdd again and save us having to keep buying hdd whenever these little darling decide to be cute with this.
Thanks

Have you tried HDDGURU's Low-Level Format?

this will not allow access to data to replace with 00. You will need to remove the ATA password first

Send it to the pro or buy new ones.

I am looking for possible other solutions besides sending it in or buying a new one. I know HDD Unlock Wizard from AFF can do it. I was looking for other solutions.

there no cheap solution unless you educate yourself in ATA commands.

If your in UK, or willing to ship here, I'll do it for nominal cost.

You DO need speciaist h/w and s/w to do this, which I have.

Cheers

Sean

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Hello,


Then what's the problem? that's really user friendly solution with an affordable price...

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he wants it done for free.

Charge the students the amount for unlocking the disks. Buy pc3000 or hire a pro. Period.

hmm we tried this on a hard drive which was high security locked seagate 80gb

and guess what it turns around and tells me that the drive is not locked wtf

there some flaws in these programs that need to be fixed.