My laptop motherboard got fried Friday and my Hard drive had a HDD password on it. I want to access my hard drive but whenever i plug it into another computer and try to boot from it, it prompt to enter a password, typed the correct hdd password but it doesn't access it. it just goes back to enter password screen. It will install the drivers in Windows but that's it. it doesn't show in device manager in windows XP but it shows in Disk Management in Vista if my memory is correct it shows the drive as unknown and show the Disk Space I tried a Linux boot disc and i would not find the Hard drive anywhere. Is there a way to access my HD again without losing my files?? Any help or suggestion is accepted My Hard drive is a Western Digital Scorpio Blue SATA Hard drive
Hi, set hard disk emulation in bios to ide, and try program named: ATAPWD 1.2, it can be found in hirens bootCD (it should be on any version of hirens starting from 10.x). hope problem gets solved. P.S. Emulation may not be neccesary, but have that in mind if program won't see the drive and you haven't changed hard disk operation mode.
And for what reason this kind of programs exist? Saving files of course. Yes, it should leave your old files. P.S. In our days information sometimes is more expensive than hard disk itself.
Ok thanks, i will try this tomorrow. I was reluctant to try this method today, even burnt the disc already just need someone to verify before I continue. Any other suggestions anyone?
Did you password-protect your drive manually, or you have used some complex software, like HP's Protect Tools?