Is It Possible to Swap a HDD Protected Drive (with a KNOWN password) Between ThinkPads?

Greetings,
I spilled a sugary drink into my X200, toasting it beyond all repair.  The X200's hard drive has ONLY a bios HDD password that I created and know.  In an attempt to recover my files from the X200's hard drive, I removed the drive and inserted it into my T60.  When I powered on the T60, I recieved the usual HDD password prompt.  However, when I entered the password (all lower-case, no special or non-English characters, and which I know is absolutely correct), I got the incorrect password symbol.  I powered off the machine and repeated this process.  After the second attempt, I saw the password prompt with a crossed out hand.
I later followed a procedure recommended by Lenovo to clear the password (don't think I'm allowed to post a link): enter the password followed by a space.  That didn't work.
I'm wondering whether the X200's HDD pasword protected drive is somehow keyed to that particular machine, and cannot, as I had always assumed, be swapped into another machine and accessed by entering the correct password.
I'm also wondering whether I may have permanantly locked myself out of the drive by making too many "invalid" attempts.
(Edited to add additional info and make the subject more descriptive than it was originally).
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LongtimeTPOwner, welcome to the forum,
sorry to hear about your situation   Removing the password should definitely be possible in another X200 or even another ThinkPad system of the same era e.g. T400, T500..etc.
One consideration you may like to take a look at is the Passphrase setting in the BIOS Password menu; if it is set differently on the T60 to how this was set on the X200 this could present problems depending on the password used, especially if it has "special characters".
Edit; typo
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