Re: HardDisk Password recovery.

[Rob Hughes <rob () robhughes com>]

On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 18:03 -0600, Joseph Forbes wrote:
>   What has happened is that one of the employees of the contract
> company I work for has password locked her notebook (Dell Latitude
> LS). Story told is that she wanted to make sure if the notebook was to
> be stolen or lost no one could get the data off of it. The usual. and
> like always, a new password, but not remembering what it was later on.

Poke around on ebay and other for sale/auction sites, find the same
model drive for cheap, then replace the controller card on your drive
with the one from your cheap, unlocked drive. That should at least let
you access the data. That should work if the password is stored in the
firmware on the controller card. If the password is stored in the boot
sector or elsewhere on the physical media, an attempt using specialized
data recovery techniques will probably be your only hope.

Rob