Hard Drive Password?

[mikiki]

Hello

I had western digital 320 GB PATA disk (WD3200BEVE) inside of my t43p notebook, and I have used Bios option named "Hard Drive Password" to set a password. Since my notebook is broken, I took out disk and put it in USB lid and connected it to other computer. How do i make that disk usable again?

PROBLEM: I cant even initialize disk in Windows, also I cant format it, partition it, or low level format it with western digital Data LifeGuard Diagnostic (it states it cant low lever format it). SMART is OK.

QUESTION:
What do I need to do to be able again to format that disk, partion it and use it normally? Data on the disk is not important, at least I would like to be able to format that disk and partition it from scratch.

I DO KNOW which password I have set using Hard Drive Password option, however, when I connect disk via USB lid to other computer it doesnt ask me for password or anything. It is unusable.


Any ideas what to do?
Any Win/Linux software which can remove Hard Drive Password (i know which pass I set)?


NOTE: I am able to connect disk to other computer only via USB lid.

[tfflivemb2]

I am not aware of another (legal) way to do this, other than using another Thinkpad.

Is your T43p completely dead? Or is it just the GPU issue?

[lukee]

You can unlock it in any laptop with ATA interface where the BIOS supports this feature - if you know the password of course.

[sojourner]

You can unlock it in any laptop with ATA interface where the BIOS supports this feature - if you know the password of course.

... otherwise you have a 'brick'!
HDD password protection was designed to keep prying eyes out, and that it does!
There's been MUCH discussion on HDD passwords here in the forums ... just search.