A friend of mine has an HP laptop that just won't behave. Though the BIOS recognizes the hard drive, I cannot see any partitions. Similarly, when I run an NTFS reader or really just about everything on the EBCD (emergency boot cd, its deffinetly a reccomended download, lots of very helpful tools) all I see is a small unpartitioned space and that is all.
When I run IBM diagnostics it says that the hard drive is locked with a password set on high security.
Of course the person who owns the computer has no idea what password there is and claims there never was one. I am inclined to belive her as the BIOS was also password protected and its pretty hard not to realize that though flashing the BIOS took care of that problem.
Now I'm stuck though and absolutely cannot figure out what to do about this hard drive password.
I have been looking online a ton and I can't find any ways to fix it, only people saying it can't really be done by the user, but of course since anandtech is awsome, perhaps one of you might consider performing a miracle.
edit: Probably should've mentioned it is a hitachi drive
When I run IBM diagnostics it says that the hard drive is locked with a password set on high security.
Of course the person who owns the computer has no idea what password there is and claims there never was one. I am inclined to belive her as the BIOS was also password protected and its pretty hard not to realize that though flashing the BIOS took care of that problem.
Now I'm stuck though and absolutely cannot figure out what to do about this hard drive password.
I have been looking online a ton and I can't find any ways to fix it, only people saying it can't really be done by the user, but of course since anandtech is awsome, perhaps one of you might consider performing a miracle.
edit: Probably should've mentioned it is a hitachi drive