HD Lock From BIOS

So here is my story:

A friend of mine had both the BIOS LOCKED & HD LOCK FROM BIOS As well on her laptop. I was about to remove the BIOS lock, but the HD password I wasn't able to at all. Its a
WD 160 GB SATA Harddrive . Is there any way to remove this bios lock on the drive with Ultimate boot disk or Hirems? Ive been trying but no luck at all

bump anyone !?

Do you know the password(s)?

If you have not done this manually, this could happen due to a software or hardware error. You can resolve this problem in several ways;
Log into Windows > Start > Run / Search > Type “Command” > Type “Lock sysn”
This will unlock your ‘C’ drive, if you want to lock this drive you can put the command as “Lock sysff”
If this is for another drive, follow the same procedure but replace the drive name instead of ‘sys’
In addition you can check the BIOS settings whether this feature is available. In some BIOS, settings allow this facility
Also, check the jumper settings to unlock and lock the hard drives. Some drives are having this facility.
And you may free to visit and see some solutions regarding to your problem in this site>>

http://www.techyv.com/questions/co [...] y-computer

If your friend doesn't care about her data, then a Secure Erase may recover her drive, if the master password is still at the default.

http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/hughes/SecureErase.html
http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/HDDEraseReadMe.txt

Do you get as far as the following (from readme.txt)?

"The estimated duration of this process is: 120 minutes

The secure erase started now at: Sat Apr 12 12:52:12 Sept 2008
The current time is: 14:50:21"

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