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Re: [pen] Recovering HDD Password?

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Subject: Re: [pen] Recovering HDD Password?
From: Mike Williams <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:11:35 -0500
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My guess is PGP disk encryption or something like that... If so, and iam at |master expert| level (that's absolute value), then you are doomedor better call a *very* expensive disk recovery place.


Cameron Hanover wrote:

locked with what?  as far as i know, there aren't any hard drives that
have passwords.  maybe external cases, or hard drives with certain
filesystems, but IDE, SATA and SCSI don't support passwords just to
mount them.

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Mike Williams <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Buy/build a very powerful electromagnet, put the drive next to it, apply
massive current to said magnet, and don't worry about it :-D

.270

Chris White wrote:

I've got a drive (40GB Toshiba MK4036GAC) thats locked and I have no clue
what the password is, does anyone know a way to recover the password on
these things?
 -Chris

References:
- Help!
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- Re: [pen] Help!
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- Re: [pen] Help!
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- Re: [pen] Help!
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- Re: [pen] Help!
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- Re: [pen] Help!
  - From: agent69
- Re: [pen] Help!
  - From: Matthew Thomas Harrison
- Re: [pen] Help!
  - From: Paul Timmins
- Recovering HDD Password?
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- Re: [pen] Recovering HDD Password?
  - From: Mike Williams
- Re: [pen] Recovering HDD Password?
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