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Laptop: Do not put your hard drive password

Well, the topic is so, for not understanding it well, bring a laptop security system to access the hard drive, accessible from the BIOS but is saved in your Hard.

A knowledge on the subject say, is easy work, only to reset the BIOS or make a Clear CMOS is sufficient, because password is stored in a single hard drive, where you can not access via software to eliminate, for example:


* Partitioning the Hard Disk
* Format Low Level
* Installing Other Operating System (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows)
* Hiren's Boot CD
* ATpwd

Unfortunately arrived the workshop an Acer Aspire Notebook with this problem, I try in every way and not get mentioned anywhere. Therefore I had no Google, reading reading fall into the same stone. In some forums someone mension Yankee contact the manufacturer to get a master password, but navigating the Hitachi FAQS back the stone

A: Unfortunately, There is no way to bypass the password security feature of Hitachi hard disk drives. If the password is Not known or has-been misplaced, Hitachi Will Not Be Able to assist in Gaining access to the data on the drive.

doubts to be removed will leave the link: http://www.hitachigst.com/support/index-files/general-faqs-index # a13

Y si quieren mas información :

Hard Disk Password

It is not a very well known fact, but all hard disks have a very strong hardware password capability build in. This password is usually stored both in a chip on the HD controller (the printed circuit board on the hard disk) and on the hard disk itself in a special hidden sector.

Setting this password will make the hard disk completely unusable to anyone that doesn’t know it. And not only on your computer, but on any computer. A lot of newer laptops will set the HD password together with the BIOS password, completely locking all the hardware.

The hard disk manufacturers are unable to unlock a password protected hard disk, as there aren’t any “secret” master passwords build into the firmware. Even swapping the controller of the password-protected hard disk with exactly the same controller from an unprotected HD will not remove the protection on most disks, as the password (together with most of the firmware) is also stored on the hard disk itself. The only way of retrieving any files from a password protected hard disk without knowing the password is to send it to a data recovery company for unlocking, but not all data recovery companies could or would unlock a password protected HD.

In this time of rising identity theft, Protecting your personal data by locking your hard disk with a password is Indeed a good idea. The downside is the HD That When It Will Be Eventually Malfunctions events harder or impossible to retrieve any files from it. So, the first rule of using a computer Applies here in full strength - "Your data is only as good as your latest backup"!

needed only to say goodbye to your hard drive, or save it until you leave any soft able to bust the padlock.