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Glory_Cloud
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 Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 9:10 pm Post subject: Locked SATA-0 HDD solution? |
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I receive hard drives in PC's and server and I reuse what I can whenever possible after wiping them. I had some 500G Seagate SATA drives come
in that are password locked. Anyone have any suggestions about
how to unlock them like with the secret master password? 
I hate to just have them shredded but I will if I can't get them
unlocked. Losing the data is not a problem as I need to wipe
them anyway.
T H A N K S ! ! ! |
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rjluna2
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| Posted: Thu May 07, 2015 7:26 am Post subject: |
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| Did you try to delete the partition and whatnot using the diskpart command on the HDD? |
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Glory_Cloud
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| Posted: Thu May 07, 2015 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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I use SeaTools for DOS to test drives and it fails every drive.
When the PC boots up in BIOS, it flashes a warning that the
drive is locked before it even attempts to boot from the CDROM.
My other drive wiping software I use just hangs up when it tries to
load when any of these locked drives are installed.  |
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frag_
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rjluna2
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| Posted: Thu May 07, 2015 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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| If else fails, connect to the offending disk to other than SATA 0 connector. You can use a working OS disk to boot with the offending disk as a second drive to see if you can access them. |
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