Cannot get into BIOS or boot PC, message asks for DriveLock password.

I have a old HP Pavilion Entertainment Notebook and the hard drive has locked, I have removed the HD and the message still appears, is there a way to get to the BIOS?
PC is HPPavilion dv1000
s/n is [Personal Information Removed]
p/n is PX323UA#ABA

LockedHarddriv wrote:
Thank You, The Lock message appears with the HD in or out, I took it our thinking I might could directly to the BIOS setup and disable it. I cannot get to the BIOS setup either way, I posted here because there are previous posts that mention a DriveLock Master password issued with the PC and several people were able to get theirs by providing PC information, please see earlier post. Also, one stream dealt with changing a jumper on the BIOS to reset it to factory settings.
From my understanding if the HDD was password locked in the previous laptop that laptop is the only one that can unlock it. Did you put the HDD back into the original laptop to attempt to access the HDD to unlock it? It's hard to tell if you did that or not?
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