Locked out of HDD

[Basil Chupin]

On 29/05/11 17:25, Pritam Baral wrote:
> On 5/29/11, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>> On 29/05/11 15:59, Pritam Baral wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> In short:
>>> My hdd is locked, but my bios doesnt let me unlock it, cant boot from
>>> live-iso because it gets stuck at the poimt of identifying hdd. Any
>>> way of passing a boot parameter to unlock the hdd first?
>>>
>>> In detail:
>>> Firstly, this is not one of those situations where one forgets their
>>> hdd password. I know my password, I just cant unlock it.
>>>
>>> My hdd supports the Security Mode Feature Set, though it was not
>>> enabled before. My bios doesn't let me set the hdd password.

> As I said, I used hdparm [--security-set-pass] to set the password.
>
> Its a Toshiba MK325GSX. It came with the laptop.
>
> Since I know the password, I can perform a SECURITY_ERASE on it, but
> if only i can boot up my system!
>
> Yes, I have searched the net. But all i can find are forgotten
> password cases, not my case.
>
> Thanx. . .


Please don't top post on this list, OK?

Have you been in touch with Toshiba about this: 
http://www.toshibastorage.com/ ?

BC

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