Hi,

My laptop has died and I have taken out the hard drive and connected
it to a USB connector.

Windows recognised the hard drive and it apears in Device Manager but
does not map a drive or apper in the Disk Management wndow.

I then remembered I had set a password for the drive.

Question 1 - Is there any way to enter a HDD passowrd via a USB/IDE
connection

I then put my Hard Drive into another laptop (a HP Compaq NC4010) and
as good as gold the Bios requested the HDDDrive Bay Password.

I entered the password but no go ?

Question 2 - The computer that the Hard Drive comes from uses a US
layout keyboard and the one i am trying to use it in now is a UK
layout. I use a ~ (tilde) in my password which is in a different spot
on these keyboards (although I have tried the various corresponding
key locations) but it continually rejcts my password.

Could this cause a problem ?

Or is there something else ?

Jason