"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in news:52mudqF1po6itU1
@mid.individual.net:

>> Thanks for all the replys (and discussion)
>>
>> To answer a few questions:
>> - the hardrive is a Seagate Momentus 7200.1
>> - the original laptop is an LG and uses Phoenix Bios
>> - the hardrive is locked using ATA Password locking and not encrypted
>
>> Any further thoughts on why the HP laptop doesn't recognise the
>> password are appreciated.
>
> You've basically got to test the two obvious possibilitys, that there
> is something about the different keyboard that matters, or that you
> have managed to forget the original password, or the fine detail of it.
>
> The obvious way to try the keyboard possibility is to try
> it in a laptop with the same keyboard as the original.
>
>> Prior to posting I had researched this quite a bit and have checked
>> most of the links for geting to the Master password and will probably
>> try this in due course if I can;t solve the user password issue.


For computers in which the BIOS does not provide an interface to the ata
password, you may wish to instead try the software program ATAPWD to
attempt to revive the drive. To obtain atapwd and read a discussion of the
issues, you can visit:

http://www.rockbox.org/lock.html

Regards,