Hello
  Doesn't low level formatting assume a scsi drive?  Most IDE drives are no
longer user formattable AFAIK.  Also, why would anyone password protect a
hard drive?  Here I am assuming they mean in firmware which also should be
unaffected by a low level format.  I can't help but wonder if the person
assuming the hard drive is password protected actually means his bios is
password protected since I can imagine little value in password protercting
the firmware.  Also, it seems common for people to refer to their encased
system as "the cpu" or "the hard drive" as a generic
term since they don't really understand the concept of a motherboard or the
entire system as a whole.
Jimmy


> inkleput{at}isp.com wrote:
> 
> >I didn't know until today there was such a thing as a hard drive
> >password.  But there is a caddy on eBay that has an HD the seller
> >believes to be locked up on a password.  He's just throwing in the HD
> >under those conditions.
> >
> >I found an article on the net which says you can apply a voltage to some
> >BIOS pins to remove the password.  Is anybody familiar with this
> >procedure?
> >
> >Jim L, via eCS 1.14 version of OS/2
> >
> >  
> >
> Just low level format the drive.
> 
> The HD password is data like any other on the drive.
> 
> A normal format wont clear it but a low level format will.
> 
> Cheers/2
> 
> Ed.
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