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ATA Password, hard drive locked
Infidel
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I have a Toshiba laptop hard drive that has a master password set on it that is lost to eternity.
The security setting is HIGH not MAX, so in theory it can be back doored. We've tried a lot of different utilities and methods but so far no luck on unlocking the damn thing.
Don't care about the data, I just want to format and make the drive usable again.
Anyone know the tool that solve this, preferably not hardware that costs tens of thousands of dollars.
The security setting is HIGH not MAX, so in theory it can be back doored. We've tried a lot of different utilities and methods but so far no luck on unlocking the damn thing.
Don't care about the data, I just want to format and make the drive usable again.
Anyone know the tool that solve this, preferably not hardware that costs tens of thousands of dollars.
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Steam/PSN/XBL/Minecraft / LoL / - Benevicious | WoW - Duckwood - Rajhek
Negative, the ATA password feature is on the physical drive. If you try to just hook it up to a bench machine without entering the unlock password the drive will refuse read/write operations. So just zeroing out the drive is not possible, we tried about a dozen tools so far to get around this but nothing has worked thus far.
Steam/PSN/XBL/Minecraft / LoL / - Benevicious | WoW - Duckwood - Rajhek
We'd also like to be able to address this in the future so we're looking for a long term solution as well for this.
When I was working at Geek Squad, there was no known fix other than sending it in to Toshiba. Let me check if they have a fix for it yet.
In the meantime, this looks promising: http://www.hddunlock.com/