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  1. brainstormcomp

    very strange problem - drivelock

    No luck at all. In fact, after putting a new hard drive in the laptop, it magically claimed to be 'locked'. Sent that drive back, thankfully my distributor took it back. Immediately trasahed to laptop for parts- no longer worth messing with. Drive dead, data unrecoverable, huge headache.
  2. brainstormcomp

    very strange problem - drivelock

    Hooking it back to the same pc that I did the virus scan is no help- the drive is no longer recognized outside of the original laptop. I've hooked it up to an external USB adapter again and directly inside a desktop with an IDE and laptop adapter- no go. Not really sure who to talk to- it's a...
  3. brainstormcomp

    very strange problem - drivelock

    Well- you get two tries and then you have to reboot. It's not that I haven't been researching this problem for 2 days straight- I've read about people taking two drives apart and switching the electronics to bypass the lock. I shouldn't have to do any of that- I NEVER SET A PASSWORD on the...
  4. brainstormcomp

    very strange problem - drivelock

    That's all fine and good- but I NEVER set a drivelock password at all. From start up to shut down there was no security in place, but now- after removing the drive and then putting it back in- it *thinks* there is a password...
  5. brainstormcomp

    very strange problem - drivelock

    I've got one for you guys. Have a Compaq Evo N610c laptop with Toshiba hard drive. The BIOS/System/Drivelock passwords were NEVER set- in fact there wasn't even a Windows password. The system got a few viruses that coulnd't be removed by the antivirus software that was in there- so I pulled the...

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