Satellite Pro S300L: howto get rid of HDD password

Hi all,
yesterday I thought it was a good idea to set the HDD password on this new laptop.
But now I want to get rid of it again. I do remember it, I just cannot find out how to disable it again.
ACPI Bios version was 3.00
I have "updated" it with a program from this site to version 1.10.
No changes.
Anybody knows how to delete this HDD user password or disable that the system asks for it?
Thanks,
Thomas

Hi again,
I finally found out how to do it.
Well, when you first know how this BIOS behaves, then it seems quite an easy task.
It is the usual <old pw><new pw><repeat new pw> cycle that starts after you press <backspace> or <space> to begin changing this option.
Once I found that out I was done.
Anyway, thanks for your time,
have a nice weekend,
/T

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