22 Aug
2009
22 Aug
'09
9:59 a.m.
Teo,
This "prize" was a joke?
Try Darik's Boot and Nuke (http://www.dban.org/), an ultra-secure disk
wiping utility. It boots a small Linux from a CD or floppy which then
load the utility. If it can detect and control the drive on the IDE
controller, it should be able to wipe the drive. This is working at at
the hardware register level so it just might work.
Unfortunately I suspect this drive has a hardware-based encryption that
sits between the IDE channel and the drive electronics and thus will
prevent anything from writing to any part of the drive without the
unlocking password.
Jim
Teo Zenios wrote:
I recently won an IBM 540MB laptop HD for the old
Thinkpad 755 series and I found out it is password locked.
IBM DHAA-2540
Security level MAX
All I want to do is erase and use the drive, to do that I run the ATA command security
erase prepare, and then security erase unit. To do the latter you need a master password
which I don't have (tried all spaces).
Anyone happen to know what the default password would be for that series? If the master
password was changed from default is it hosed permanently? Any other way around it so I
can use the drive?