Re: password on the hard drive

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From: Joseph Christie (christij_at_unix.asb.com)
Date: Sun Jul 07 1996 - 21:13:02 EDT

On Sun, 07 Jul 1996 15:56:34 -0400, you wrote:

>Robert Dewar wrote:
>>
>> "I have a thinkpad 750Cs. I added a 1M hard-drive on to it.
>> the problem is that I had a password for the hard drive which
>> I dont remember. I have been told that the hard drive is now
>> useless. IS there some way I can remove the password and reclaim the
>> hard drive ? Has anybody had sucess with this ?"
>>
>> One would certainly hope that the drive is useless if you have
>> forgotten the password, otherwise what use is a password?
>
>
> Point taken. However there is a power on password
> and IBM support/service can fix that. I am hoping that there is
> way to fix the hard drive password problem too rather than trash
> the hard drive.
>
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>Randi Singh randi_at_imonics.com
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In the olden days DR DOS had the ability to password protect a HD. The
password was stored somewhere in track zero. Low level formatting the drive
removed password protection. Of course LL formatting an ide drive isn't a
walk in the park either.

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