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&quot;ATA Password Tool,&quot; <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.upsystems.com.ua/support/alexmina/atapwd.zip";>http://www.upsystems.com.ua/support/alexmina/atapwd.zip</a>

I only know about it from reading a ATA drive white-paper discussing
forensic issues:

<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www2.foi.se/rapp/foir1638.pdf";>http://www2.foi.se/rapp/foir1638.pdf</a>

Chapter 5 of that white paper describes the ATA password feature.  I
may be worth reading to understand what your trying to do.  Note that
the goal of the white-paper is to read the protected data on the
drive.  I think yours is just to make the drive usable again, so you
may have a chance even if you can find the default master password.

Good Luck
Greg

On 7/16/05, Van Loggins &lt;vanloggins at gmail.com&gt; wrote:
&gt; I got this off ebay for as a replacement drive for my Apple Powerbook G4
&gt; 500 MHz Titanium laptop that I am rebuilding.
&gt; 
&gt; To make a very long story short, This drive came out of an IBM Thinkpad
&gt; that seller was parting out for parts on ebay. The seller didn't know
&gt; that the drive had a password set on it while it was installed in the
&gt; IBM laptop. No one knows what the password was set to so the drive is
&gt; for all practical extents and purposes useless unless someone here can
&gt; help me out with a procedure to erase the service cylinder on the drive
&gt; which is where the password is stored according to all the info on the
&gt; subject that I have found using the google search engine. I have found
&gt; several services that offer a drive unlock service for this type of
&gt; situation but all of them cost more than I can buy another laptop drive for.
&gt; 
&gt; I thought using DD to erase the drive might do the trick but I was
&gt; wrong. Basically by having this lock in place on the drive it doesn't
&gt; allow you to make changes to the MFT table so you can't create a new
&gt; partition on the drive. Someone removed the partition on the drive
&gt; without clearing the password.
&gt; 
&gt; Any ideas anyone? I'm currently using a 20 gig drive in my Powerbook,
&gt; but it originally came with a 30 gig ibm travelstar drive so I would
&gt; kind of like to put it back to the original specifications.
&gt; 
&gt; Thanks in advance.
&gt; 
&gt; Van
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