Drive Erase Utility on X220

Hi board,
I use a Lenovo X220 with the stock HDD with 300GB. In the past, I set a hard drive password via UEFI and startet my Lenovo several months with the fingerprint-sensor. And that's the problem: I forgot my password.
I know- read it several times- that a password-recovery doesn't exist. I found the "Drive Erase Utility" in the driver-matrix, tried it via USB-drive an MS-DOS-Boot, but the tool always tells me, that it can be used with SSDs only. (I strictly followed the instructions, provided by Lenovo here: http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/83fd02ww.txt)
My plan was:
a) I make a complete backup of my Windows-Installation because I can access it with fingerprint (done)
b) erase the hard drive including the password I set (with the "Drive Erase Utility")
c) restore my Windows from backup
d) set a new password
Thanks in advance for every advice...
And for everyone: I don't want to restore or hack a password, I just want to set a new password with erasing ALL of the data on the disk.
Best regards from Berlin, Germany
Thes.

@Kyle_Thes...
There is no way to "reset" a hard drive password, other than to remember it and enter it in the appropriate BIOS screen. Your HDD is inaccessible without the password. That is by security design.
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