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  1. Jokerman28

    How to disable password on a hard drive?

    Thanks wolluf, I did use the bootdisk, but the drive was not being recognized at all to start with. It looks like the drive is shot. I shook it a little and I heard some noise, not good. I'm going to junk it and move on. I appreciate everyone's responses.
  2. Jokerman28

    Can not reinstall Windows XP

    bobbers64: the answer is at this link: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310760
  3. Jokerman28

    How to disable password on a hard drive?

    Fdisk can't even access the drive: Error reading fixed disk wolluf: Thanks for the killdisk tool. I can't use it until I figure out a way to kake the disk readable by the OS. I'm going to try and add it to another working system as a slave drive and see if I can at least fdisk it with...
  4. Jokerman28

    How to disable password on a hard drive?

    I bought a 10 Gig Seagate ST310211A thinking I got a good deal and now I know why... I can't even partition the drive in Partition Magic. Drive errors. I finally ran a Seagate tools diagnostic and found out that the drive is password protected. How do you disable the password? or is there a way...
  5. Jokerman28

    Can not reinstall Windows XP

    Jimasav: You are my savior!!! I have had the same exact problem you mentioned step by step. When I started reading your thread I got spooked out... Thank you for the solution! I've been stuck with the same issue for about 2 weeks now and was so close to dump the motherboard and get a new one...

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