Re: [Thinkpad] Thinkpad Hard Drive Passwords

From: Robert Mears <thinkpad_at_lightsides.com>
Date: Sun Feb 01 2004 - 23:48:30 EST

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 23:13:38 +0000, Dimitrios wrote:

>On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 22:45:47 +0100 "Felix E. Klee" <felix.klee.thinkpad@gmx.net> wrote:

>> I have no experience with HD passwords (never used them) but I guess
>> that working around them may not be all that hard: Simply replace the
>> hard disks "system board". However, the password may be stored on a
>> certain part of the disks themselves. Then a work around becomes a bit
>> harder, but not impossible.

>I wouldn't trust hardware protection, most of them can be broken fairly
>easily and the rest are just time consuming.
>

I would like to comment on harddrive passwords. Once a harddrive password is set...if it is forgotten, you cannot... CANNOT.. reset it or get around it. That
is a design of the Thinkpad that noone else (to my knowledge) has. Put that in another thinkpad and it just won't boot. We tried that with a couple of X24's
and X31's at work.

My $0.02

Robert

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