Set HDD password on T550

Hi, I just upgraded my harddisk in my ThinkPad T550 to a Crucial MX200 1TB. The drive works very well, but now I'd like to set the HDD password to make use of the encryption the drive provides (prefer not to use BitLocker). I can't seem to find the corresponding menu item in the BIOS. I also tried the "ThinkPad Setup Settings Capture/Playback Utility (SRSETUP)" with no luck. Then I tried the "BIOS Setup Menu Extension Utility", which officially doesn't support the T550. It shows the status of the menu changed from disabled to enabled, but I still can't find the menu in the BIOS. Can anyone point me to a solution on how to activate the HDD password on the T550? Thanks!

Just as a follow up: I swapped the MX200 with a Samsung EVO 850 1TB. Now the HDD password as well as BitLocker work as they're supposed to. Too bad the return period for my MX200 has already expired ...

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Few questions about setting HDD password in BIOS

In the BIOS, theres an option to set passwords on the hard drives
Has anybody used this?
What exacty does this do? Makes you have to enter a password whenever you access the hard drive?
Please expound

If you use your notebook for private purposes only and if there is no risk for you that someone else can have access to your data I dont recommend you to set HDD password.
It is very nice and good feature if you have sensible data saved on your HDD and use your notebook in company or take it with you.
All other information you can pick up from the Toshiba document.

How to set HDD password?

Hi,
Could someone please help me in setting the password for TOSHIBA STOR.E ART 3 ( 2.5" 1TB) HDD?

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I dont have this external HDD but has Toshiba preinstalled some additional software on it for HDD password creation?

Unable to set HDD passwords for Qosmio G30

I have tried in vain to find documentation on how to do this -- using the F2 method to access these bios options never works, I have tried using config assist / password utility and can find no options. I have upgraded the bios to 1.70
Does anyone know how to access the bios to enable the hdd password functionality ?

If you can not find this option I presume it is simply not available. Sorry but I dont have other explanation. Checking users manuals there is nothing about HDD password on Qosmio G30. Have you check it too?
By the way: I am not 100% sure but I believe that HDD password protection is only on business notebook like Tecra and Portege available, not on multimedia notebook like Qosmio series.

Differences between User and built-in HDD password

I wolud like to set a HDD password on my Satellite.
But when I get inside BIOS to set HDD password, I see two HDD passwords,
one says USER HDD Pasword and the other says Built-in HDD Password.
Can you tel me the difference between them and/or what is each one.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Edward

Cezzy, welcome to the forum,
I am sorry, but regardless of the circumstances this subject is not allowed to be discussed here as stated in the forum rules
No posts shall include instructions or directions intended to subvert security measures, including passwords, locking mechanisms, fingerprint scans, etc, nor shall any posts provide descriptions to the location of, nor direct links to content related to these topics.
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X61 Bizarrely Asking for HDD Password when one not set??

Had some odd problems with my X61 last Friday with it dropping into 'stand-by' mode (Windows XP) every 30 seconds or so. Trying to clear it I cycled the power and now it's asking for a HDD password - when I've not had a HDD password set since I installed PGP WDE 12+ months ago!!
I've tried the current PGP password, together with all of the passwords I used around the time I installed PGP - nothing works.
Removing the HDD and booting gets me to the BIOS settings and I've tried switiching the Passphrase setting (discussed in another post) and trying all the passwords again - still no good. I've also tried the Drive in an alternate x61.
Anyone heard of anything like this?

Attach the HDD, turn on computer and press <Enter> if you are requested for the password.
Sometimes it can happen, that the user is asked for a password, even none has been set.
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Remove built-in HDD password (Satellite Pro L300)

I already posted a topic but it didn't get any working answers, and I can't post in it to bump it any more.
Anyway, I know the password, and I can boot up into Windows, get into BIOS, etc..I just can't remove the password, not change it. There's no BIOS user password set, or a supervisor password set, just an HDD password. I want to remove it and just have the Windows XP passwords. This is really frustrating now. I just upgraded to the latest BIOS version about an hour ago, and still no luck
Any ideas?
These are the suggestions I tried:
"http://laptopforums.toshiba.com/t5/Satellite-Laptops-A-Series/HDD-password-is-frozem-BIOS-hard-disk-..."
"You should be able to remove the password by first entering the current password, then just hitting <enter> for both of the "new password" entries.
If that's not clearing the password, then something else is amiss. :-("
The thing is, there isn't a thing for current password, new password and confirm new password, there's just one thing that says built-in HDD password within the security bit of the BIOS setup, and no matter what you enter, the changes aren't reflected
Edit: Seems you can't change or remove the HDD password. How ridiculous.

If you didn't set a hard drive password and the system suddenly starts asking for one, that is one symptom of a drive failure. As far as I know, there is no way to reset, remove, or otherwise defeat a hard disk password once it is set so under those circumstances, I would treat the drive as failed and shop for a replacement. If the system is still under warranty, a Premier Authorized Service Provider would be the best option.

Satellite L50 won't start up - asks for HDD password

Hi
hopefully someone can help me
I have a Toshiba Satellite L50 laptop and when i start it up it says
+no bootable device please restart system+
It is still under waranty as it was only bought 6 months ago.
I took it back where i bought it and they told me to contact Toshiba.
I am waiting on a call back.
I am hoping someone can help. It also asks for HDD password.
Where do I find that information?

Hi Kym
I guess the Satellite L50 cannot find the bootable device (HDD) because the HDD has been secured with an HDD password and without this password the HDD isnt accessible and the system will not boot up properly.
Did you set such HDD password in the past?
Im asking because such password isnt set on new notebooks. Such HDD password can be set only by notebook owner
From my knowledge if you dont know such HDD password, you will not be able to get access to the HDD in such case the HDD would be useless and the data would be lost
Therefore I would recommend you to check if someone has set the HDD password on your notebook in case you dont know the password, you will need to replace the HDD and to reinstall the system once again.

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Right, when I first got my laptop (Toshiba Satellite Pro L300-12H), I set an HDD password, but now I've decided to get rid of it, and just use XP passwords (as there are now multiple accounts). The thing is, I can't! I can't disable the password, nor can I even change it to something like, "a". I thought it might not allow simple passwords, so I tried "house321" for example, pressed F10 to exit with saved changes - nothing!
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I also tried entering my password followed by \ which I read while looking for solutions, and that didn't help
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Sure LooieENG , why not? =D
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as I said before, I need the information that's in the Hard disk. I'm trying to acces the HDD via a usb2.0 IDE adapter, but the computer doesn't recognice the hardware, so I'm lookin for the driver, does any body know where can I get it?
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Hi, my laptop (Satellite Pro M10-S405 ) has rather recently started prompting me with a message "Built-in HDD Password =" at boot up. I've never set any passwords on the hard disk in the past, I have important data in the HDD.
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Abu-Abdullah wrote:
Hi, my laptop (Satellite Pro M10-S405 ) has rather recently started prompting me with a message "Built-in HDD Password =" at boot up. I've never set any passwords on the hard disk in the past, I have important data in the HDD.
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Sadly I think you will need to replace your hard drive. If your notebook is definitely asking for a hard drive password then there is no way of bypassing this and the only way that I know of recovering this situation is to send the hard drive to a specialist company who specialise in this kind of recovery (usually for forensic puposes, Police, armed forces, etc.). This can prove quite expensive.
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Hi
Did you check the settings in the BIOS?
My BIOS contains a option for HDD password setting.
But just one question; why do you want to set the HDD password?
Is it really necessary?
You should know that if the HDD was set and something will go wrong, I mean if you would forget the HDD password then the HDD would be locked and not more useable.
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Thank You in advance for any help.

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I registered the user password, as well as the hdd password - both user and master passwords worked for the hdd password, but when I try to select (by pressing the down arrow from the user password on the bios password section) the supervisor password, it just skips over it.
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Have you tried to set supervisor password using option in Toshiba Assist > secure > Supervisor password? It is small Toshiba utility designed for supervisor password registration.

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