#External hard disk password protection install

The best / only option is to find another ThinkPad of the same/similar generation and install the drive into it as the primary drive. If you encrypted it, and did not make a recovery disk, you may as well. While the ATA spec defines the security mechanism of FDE, the way that the password is hashed varies between manufacturers (and sometimes even between systems from the same manufacturer). Hi all I have Bufallo External Hard (500 GB) i created a Password on the External. Install a hard disk password protected drive into a USB SATA enclosure won't work because there is no way to send the ATA security commands over USB. TL DR: Recovering data from a password-protected SATA hard disk that was locked by a Thinkpad I wish this post would be as generally valid as the title suggests at this hour IвЂ™m just unspeakably glad to have unlocked a hard disk I didnвЂ™t even know I had locked and can finally go to bed. Answer: Hi, You can easily protect your drive with the help of bitlocker, Just insert the drive into system and do right click on it. How can I access the drive without having another ThinkPad laptop to plug it into? I know the password to the drive, and have tried booting from it in other machines but to no avail. I have the FDE drive and would like to try to access the data on it while my ThinkPad is being repaired, however, unlike a non-encrypted drive, I cannot simply plug it into an external SATA>USB enclosure as it requires a hard disk password that is normally entered on boot. Its simple enough for the novice to use, but theres nothing simplistic about this system utilitys hard-disk password protection. This protection is normally only implemented on laptop hard disks but as part of the ATA specification can be implemented on any hard disk the behaviour is.

Data security is important to me, and I have used the hard drive password feature to protect it. An ATA password (also known as the ATA Security Feature Set) is part of the ATA specification and allows two 32 byte passwords to be set on the drive a User Password and a Master Password. My Lenovo ThinkPad T510 experienced a system board failure the other day and so I shipped the laptop to Lenovo for repair under warranty.

External hard disk password protection