We have a hard drive in an IBM notebook that someone put a password on. This is an actual hard drive password. IBM will gladly charge us a large sum of money to remove the password. Does anyone know how to remove the password from this hard drive? It is totally useless to us now.
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Password on a hard drive
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At what level does the password operate? Do you need to recover data - or do you just want to wipe drive and reuse it? (could try something like to wipe it).
diogenes10
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There was another thread somewhere recently in regard to a password protected toshiba drive which led me to do a little looking and I did see the issue mentioned on ibm drives as well. I dont think I saw any "free" solutions for either toshiba or ibm, there were some third party operations that said they could get them off - at least sometimes.
do some creative google searching on something like - remove hard drive password ibm -- or -- password protected hard drive ibm -- and you should turn up those options if you're interested. I did not save any of the references.
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M. Abrash
do some creative google searching on something like - remove hard drive password ibm -- or -- password protected hard drive ibm -- and you should turn up those options if you're interested. I did not save any of the references.
Here's a screen to get you started.
The best optimizer is between your ears.
M. Abrash
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