From: Mike Williams <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: pen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, November 6, 2008 8:13:23 PM
Subject: Re: [pen] Recovering HDD Password?
Obvious (stupid) question, but did you do some googling on this? I bet someone already tried and/or succeeded with it.
.270
Chris White wrote:
> its a 2.5" IDE drive that came out of a Nav unit I'm trying (read was) to reverse engineer. The same radio without the navigation option had no password and loaded right up when I plugged it into my USB adapter. This one I plug in and get zilch nada so finally I took a laptop and slapped this thing in there and it asks for a password to access the drive. Three tries and it aborts :\
>
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> *From:* Cameron Hanover <
orange1@xxxxxxxxx>
> *To:*
pen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> *Sent:* Thursday, November 6, 2008 8:07:02 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [pen] Recovering HDD Password?
>
> 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 <mailto:
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
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
>
> -- -cth
>
> Chaos was the law of nature. Order was the dream of man.
>