I have get 3 Seagate Thin MDL: ST320LT025 HDD's all recovered from disaffected/defective HP laser printers and all 3 are password protected and i want to use them into laptops as spare parts. Is it possible to remove the password (i do not have access to put them back into a HP printer and set from menu unlock as HP tell on their service manual) ? Th'x in advance !
Those HDD's are used mainly in HP's Network Laser Printer and configured as Print-Servers. To get access to that HDD's, you'll need the Master Password if you didn't like to format that drives. Format wouls required a Low-Level Format, which also 'clears' the Track Zero of that HDD's which contains Passwords and more. In case you'll format (LLFMT), all data will be gone with NO way of recovery! Low-Level Format is irreversible, and requires partitioning and High-Level Format after done! If you really need the (Master-) Password, you must try for to get from a reputatet service and/or HP directly. Not easy to get! In Thailand only HP itself could do that, IF they will accept such order and also will ask for a proof of Ownership etc.!
LatinMcG, I've heard of this software or that software for $$$ but nothing that really worked until today. I'm not sure how much new bios's allow a user to use the "ide" option
Th'x all for suggestions to try with zu. I will try to find an older MB (i see one with Intel G31 chipset is working) and hope i will have some luck.
most intel boards work. dells seems to get error. nvidias and amd might not work.. reason is it uses direct access via the chipset to the registers of the hdd and nvidia ata isnt completely standard.
To me this is a VERY interesting thread. I once had a locked Samsung laptop hard drive which was not supported by either version of ZU, and from what little google russian-to-english translating I did it seemed the author had no intent to add support for Samsung or Seagate drives. I know for a fact that ATA Secure Erase can NOT be run on a locked Samsung, so that's no help. I googled up some special equipment meant to access and write to the firmware section of the platter but it was WAY not worth it... I figured that the drive was worth maybe $25, so why spend multiple hundreds to get it unlocked? lol