Thanks for the replies!
The drives don't have a power on password, as you said the machine would ask for it as soon as you boot it up. It also doesn't come with jumpers. I have checked an Hitachi drive which I have myself and see that it has a jumper fitted, however these seagate drives do not.

Hey. I'm wondering if anybody can shed any light on my situation. I have 2 x Seagate Momentus 5400.2 40gb hard drives which were bought new to be installed into 2 x IBM T30 laptops. When the hard drives were installed the laptop would not pick them up and when I tried to run FDISK I got an error mes...