Hard drive password thinkpad t510

I have a laptop model thingPad T510
Forgotten Hard drive password
how can i get in to my system's Hard drive password

the only way to access a modern, password-locked hdd is to remember the password... period.
if you don't remember it, you'll need to replace it.
sorry.
eta: forum rules prohibit password circumvention discussions.
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Welcome-FAQs/Lenovo-Community-Participation-Rules/m-p/1
"No posts shall include instructions or directions intended to subvert security measures, including passwords, locking mechanisms, fingerprint scans, etc, or to subvert safety measures. Nor shall any posts provide descriptions to the location of, nor direct links to content related to these topics."
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On lost or forgotten password - ThinkPad General we read "setting a supervisor password automatically sets the master hard drive password". This one is a powerful feature that allows administrators recovering disks whose user password has been set to an unknown string.
Does this feature applies to old systems too, let us say T40 and X40-series ThinkPads, or only to new ones?
If this feature does not apply to old systems is there a way to set a master password (only a master password, not a user one) on the drives of these old ThinkPads? Up to my knowledge the only choices are user password or master + user password. My goal is providing a mean to recover control on a drive whose user password has been set without requiring users provide a password each time the computer is booted.
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Edit: found a reference to supervisor password setting a master hard drive password automatically from march 2008, however I am interested in computers from 2004 up to 2006.
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is1981 wrote:
Does this feature applies to old systems too, let us say T40 and X40-series ThinkPads, or only to new ones?
If this feature does not apply to old systems is there a way to set a master password (only a master password, not a user one) on the drives of these old ThinkPads? Up to my knowledge the only choices are user password or master + user password. My goal is providing a mean to recover control on a drive whose user password has been set without requiring users provide a password each time the computer is booted.
Thanks!
AFAIK, on the old systems such as T4x/X4x one must set both the user and the master password.
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How to remove hard drive password on a Portege M400-170 ?

Hi,
I've read a lot of things in this forum, in the user manual, I even phoned the support Toshiba and i've still no answer to my problem.
At the first use of the PC, i defined a hard drive password. I now want to remove this password.
The user manual and the forum advise me to open the bios configuration, under windows, wich is supposed to offer the possibility to change and remove password. No option, no possibility to change nor remove the password.
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> Have you also found follow sentence: but your HDD
> Password is stored in the HDD unit itself. With
> other words this password is saved on the HDD and can
> not be exchanged.
>
> Other interesting sentence is: HDD Password is non
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I understand this sentence in the context of "If you forget your password".
I have no doubt you are right but i still search because some informations let me hope it's possible ;-)
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Need larger capacity Hard Drive for ThinkPad T43 Product: 2668Y4F

Please recommend company web sites that carry compatible 80GB Hard Drive or larger capacity Hard Drives for ThinkPad T43 Product/Model: 2668Y4F. Lenovo apparently does not carry hard drives for older ThinkPad notebooks.
Please advise. Thank you, Mark
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PATA/IDE laptop drives have gone the way of dodo bird, for the most part.
This would be my pick:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-160GB-2-5-HM160HC-Hard-Drive-Brand-New-PATA-IDE-ATA-for-notebook-lap...
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T41 hard drive password changed with "load defaults"

Hi, I have a T41 laptop and it has a hard drive password. I wanted to get rid of the password, so I chose "load setup defaults". That didn't get rid of the password, but instead changed it to something else. The password is different now, does anybody know what it defaulted to?
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gigahurts wrote:
I'll give that a try. However, I can not get into the bios without taking the hard drive out. Are you suggesting that I take the drive out, enable the passphrase option (it is currently disabled), put the drive back in and try that?
Trying will not hurt and will also not set you back as you can always reverse the changed settings.
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