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From: ~misfit~ on 30 Jun 2010 19:46 I have a friend who is the IT guy for a company. Recently he was tasked with disposing of several EOL (for them) laptops and company policy for them is to remove and destroy (big hammer...) the HDDs and then pass on the rest of the machine to the IT reseller company which the always deal with. I couldn't bear to see / hear about good HDDs being smashed so I gave him my word (which is indeed my bond, he's known me long enough to know that's true) that the data wouldn't be accessed at all, just wiped. So I became the proud owner of five second-hand Toshiba 120GB 5400rpm SATA HDDs. (Model MK1252GSX) However, when I dropped them in a USB dock and went to run my HDD scrubbing / over-writing software I got a message that the HDD was password protected. They all are. (I get a similar message when I put them in my ThinkPad HDD ultrabay only from the ThinkPad BIOS.) I've Googled but have so far been unable to resolve the issue. It seems that I may have to destroy them after all. That goes against everything that I believe in. :-( Can anybody help me in my quest to keep perfectly good HDDs out of the landfill and do my bit for reducing needless waste? TYVMIA, -- Shaun. "When we dream.... that's just our brains defragmenting" G Jackson.
From: gargoyle60 on 1 Jul 2010 15:38 On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 11:46:55 +1200, "~misfit~" <sore_n_happy(a)nospamyahoo.com.au> wrote: >I have a friend who is the IT guy for a company. Recently he was tasked with >disposing of several EOL (for them) laptops and company policy for them is >to remove and destroy (big hammer...) the HDDs and then pass on the rest of >the machine to the IT reseller company which the always deal with. > >I couldn't bear to see / hear about good HDDs being smashed so I gave him my >word (which is indeed my bond, he's known me long enough to know that's >true) that the data wouldn't be accessed at all, just wiped. So I became the >proud owner of five second-hand Toshiba 120GB 5400rpm SATA HDDs. (Model >MK1252GSX) > >However, when I dropped them in a USB dock and went to run my HDD scrubbing >/ over-writing software I got a message that the HDD was password protected. >They all are. (I get a similar message when I put them in my ThinkPad HDD >ultrabay only from the ThinkPad BIOS.) I've Googled but have so far been >unable to resolve the issue. It seems that I may have to destroy them after >all. That goes against everything that I believe in. :-( > >Can anybody help me in my quest to keep perfectly good HDDs out of the >landfill and do my bit for reducing needless waste? > >TYVMIA, Don't know if this would work... but have you tried using something such as GParted to repartition the drives - I don't know how it works but I wonder if it might ignore passwords as it's going to destroy the partitions (and their data, including passwords) anyway? Just a thought
From: spamme0 on 5 Jul 2010 14:02 ~misfit~ wrote: > I have a friend who is the IT guy for a company. Recently he was tasked with > disposing of several EOL (for them) laptops and company policy for them is > to remove and destroy (big hammer...) the HDDs and then pass on the rest of > the machine to the IT reseller company which the always deal with. > > I couldn't bear to see / hear about good HDDs being smashed so I gave him my > word (which is indeed my bond, he's known me long enough to know that's > true) that the data wouldn't be accessed at all, just wiped. So I became the > proud owner of five second-hand Toshiba 120GB 5400rpm SATA HDDs. (Model > MK1252GSX) > > However, when I dropped them in a USB dock and went to run my HDD scrubbing > / over-writing software I got a message that the HDD was password protected. > They all are. (I get a similar message when I put them in my ThinkPad HDD > ultrabay only from the ThinkPad BIOS.) I've Googled but have so far been > unable to resolve the issue. It seems that I may have to destroy them after > all. That goes against everything that I believe in. :-( > > Can anybody help me in my quest to keep perfectly good HDDs out of the > landfill and do my bit for reducing needless waste? > > TYVMIA, You're gonna have to go back to your friend and get the passwords. They may all be the same. Be aware that violating company security policy can get your friend fired.
From: ED on 5 Jul 2010 16:22 "~misfit~" <sore_n_happy(a)nospamyahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:i0gl1k$rqn$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >I have a friend who is the IT guy for a company. Recently he was tasked >with disposing of several EOL (for them) laptops and company policy for >them is to remove and destroy (big hammer...) the HDDs and then pass on the >rest of the machine to the IT reseller company which the always deal with. > > I couldn't bear to see / hear about good HDDs being smashed so I gave him > my word (which is indeed my bond, he's known me long enough to know that's > true) that the data wouldn't be accessed at all, just wiped. So I became > the proud owner of five second-hand Toshiba 120GB 5400rpm SATA HDDs. > (Model MK1252GSX) > > However, when I dropped them in a USB dock and went to run my HDD > scrubbing / over-writing software I got a message that the HDD was > password protected. They all are. (I get a similar message when I put them > in my ThinkPad HDD ultrabay only from the ThinkPad BIOS.) I've Googled but > have so far been unable to resolve the issue. It seems that I may have to > destroy them after all. That goes against everything that I believe in. > :-( > > Can anybody help me in my quest to keep perfectly good HDDs out of the > landfill and do my bit for reducing needless waste? > > TYVMIA, > -- > Shaun. > > "When we dream.... that's just our brains defragmenting" G Jackson. > www.WindowsPasswordsRecovery.com
From: Mike S. on 5 Jul 2010 18:56 In article <i0gl1k$rqn$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, ~misfit~ <sore_n_happy(a)nospamyahoo.com.au> wrote: >I have a friend who is the IT guy for a company. Recently he was tasked with >disposing of several EOL (for them) laptops and company policy for them is >to remove and destroy (big hammer...) the HDDs and then pass on the rest of >the machine to the IT reseller company which the always deal with. > >I couldn't bear to see / hear about good HDDs being smashed so I gave him my >word (which is indeed my bond, he's known me long enough to know that's >true) that the data wouldn't be accessed at all, just wiped. So I became the >proud owner of five second-hand Toshiba 120GB 5400rpm SATA HDDs. (Model >MK1252GSX) > >However, when I dropped them in a USB dock and went to run my HDD scrubbing >/ over-writing software I got a message that the HDD was password protected. >They all are. (I get a similar message when I put them in my ThinkPad HDD >ultrabay only from the ThinkPad BIOS.) I've Googled but have so far been >unable to resolve the issue. It seems that I may have to destroy them after >all. That goes against everything that I believe in. :-( > >Can anybody help me in my quest to keep perfectly good HDDs out of the >landfill and do my bit for reducing needless waste? http://www.rockbox.org/lock.html
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