Lenovo and HD password protection - BEWARE

if you set the HD passwords in BIOS, you cannot use the drives in any other laptop.
In my W520, I enabled the HD password in bios for both the msata and the SSD. Both are curical M4's.
Then 4 days after 3yr NBD warranty expired (which i never used), the laptop died (motherboard).
I removed the two drives, and put them in a Dell desktop. it asks for the password on bootup. I entered the password (a simple 5 letter word) as I have done every day for the last 3 years, and it said the password was wrong, and i could not access the drive. I tried another dell, then a tosiba. All the same result.
I contacted Crucial, and they assured me that the bios HD password will work in any compture, so I must have "forgotten" the password I have typed every day for 3 years.
In desperiation, I purcahsed a W530, and put the 2 HD in the unit, not expecting it to work. Guess what, I entered the same password and it worked first time!
So it seems that if you enable the HD1/HD2 password in a lenovo, and it dies, and you dont have access to another lenovo, the drives are bricked and you wont be able to get at your data.
This is a big problem, as I want to protect my data against theft, but I also want to not lose two expensive SSD drives if the laptop dies and I have no access to another lenovo (there is probably no Lenovo or Lenovo user in a 150km radious of gibraltar)

The password is encrypted in the BIOS code. This is necessary to avoid cracking the password using dictionary attacks. Passphrase encryption used to be an option, but now it is the only choice, starting, I think, with T410, T510, W510, etc. I have no solution for you, other than getting access to a Lenovo machine T410 or later. Older machines that had encryption as an option will not work because the encryption algorithm changed

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