swap hard drive btwn T41 and T23 .. with Hard Drive password

[sharabi]

Hi,
I have 2 laptops T23 and T41, I'm trying to get the T23 read the hard drive that was in T41. The T41 hard drive has Hard Drive password, which I know and can boot the OS... but that password won't work when the put the same drive in T23...

any suggestions?

Thanks

[thinkpadz]

try putting it back in to original pc and remove pw support. then transfer.

Hi,
I have 2 laptops T23 and T41, I'm trying to get the T23 read the hard drive that was in T41. The T41 hard drive has Hard Drive password, which I know and can boot the OS... but that password won't work when the put the same drive in T23...

any suggestions?

Thanks

[sharabi]

buy doing the following:

When the HDP prompt appears, type in the current password, press the Spacebar, and then press Enter.

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but are there 2 HDD passwords?
one user hard drive password and other supervisor hard drive password
and only sup can disable the password, cuz I don't sup password

or perhaps any way for me to read the sup password, once I have the OS booted.. its XP.. and I do have admin rights

Thanks a bunch

[Ground Loop]

On newer T4x laptops, there is an option for an "extended" hd password.

This is not compatible with older laptops that can not allow extended-length passwords, so there is a warning not to enable the bigger passwords if the hard drive must also work with an older BIOS.

In any case, the earlier advice was best -- remove the password in the laptop that works fine, then move it over.

[sharabi]

How do I remove my password....
after my password is accepted and I hit enter... I pressed space bar... and goes right into booting OS???

Thanks
Sharabi