22 Aug
2009
22 Aug
'09
6:37 a.m.
or just start trying passwords (password, sex, god, etc)
if the security is such that too many password failures may cause it to wipe the drive
itself...
otherwise, yes, you're SOL, but a replacement drive can be very cheap.
From: teoz at neo.rr.com
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Old password protected laptop drive
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:45:56 -0400
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?
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