T60 bios security issues

Hello everyone,
I understand password bypass is a forbidden topic on this board, so I will try to frame my question appropriately.   My college-age daughter has a 3 year old T60 which i bought for her at the beginning of her college career.  At that time, I set up her POP & bios passwords & registered our fingerprints without fully understanding what I was doing.  She loves the notebook so much that she declined my offer to replace it with a newer unit.  So, we instead added memory & swapped out the hdd.  So far, so good.  I then got an external usb enclosure for the old hdd, so she can use it as a backup device. That's when it became clear I didn't know what I was doing when I was initially setting up the system 3 years ago.  The drive is locked & I could not unlock it for the life of me; i.e., we both forgot the bios, pop & hdd passwords. Her fingerprint will still get her into the bios, but nothing can be changed without the original pwd, it seems.  The system is use-able, i.e., she can log into xp & do her thing.  I just want to know if there is any way to reset the old hdd once you've gained access to the bios.  I am not about to sink $50 for a one time unlock service from a russian hdd repair experts for a 60gb hdd.  So, is the drive now toast?  Or, does anyone know of a workaround?  Is there a way to take fingerprint authentication & use that to do low level configs?
Thanks for your help.
Jean

For POP password, follow the given tip:-
Forgotten Power-on password
If the Power-on password is forgotten and the Supervisor password is known, simply go into the ThinkPad BIOS setup utility and reset the Power-on password, otherwise try the following:
Turn off the computer.
Remove the battery pack.
Remove the backup battery.
Turn on the computer and wait until the POST ends. After the POST ends, the password prompt does not appear. The POP has been removed.
Reinstall the backup battery and the battery pack. 
Note: Some ThinkPad systems have the ability to reset the Power-on passwords in the ThinkPad BIOS setup utility if a Supervisor password has been set.
Backup battery is the yellow colored CMOS battery inside the notebook, watch the proceeding video on how to remove and install it:- 
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-63894
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-63895
As for HDD's user password, follow the proceeding instructions:-
To remove a user HDP that has been forgotten, when the SVP and the master HDP are known, do the following:
1. Turn on the computer; then, while the “To interrupt normal startup, press the blue ThinkVantage button” message is displayed at the lower-left of the screen, press the ThinkVantage button. The Rescue and Recovery screen opens.
For models supporting the Passphrase function, press F1 while HDP icon is appearing on the screen; then enter the master HDP. For the other models, enter the master HDP.
Note: To check whether the ThinkPad computer supports the Passphrase function, enter the BIOS Setup Utility and go to Security --> Password. If Using Passphrase item is displayed in the menu, this function is available on the ThinkPad computer.
2. Click Access BIOS. The system Restart Required window is displayed.
3. Click Yes. The computer restarts, and the BIOS Setup Utility screen opens.
4. Select Security, using the cursor directional keys to move down the menu.
5. Select Password.
6. Select Hard-disk x password, where x is the letter of the hard disk drive. A pop-up window opens.
7. Select Master HDP. 8. Type the current master HDP in the Enter Current Password field. then leave
the Enter New Password field blank, and press Enter twice. 9. Press F10.
10. Select Yes in the Setup Configuration window. Both user HDP and master HDP will have been removed.
If you set no Master HDP, then I suggest leaving the fields blank both times.
Hope it helps.
Maliha (I don't work for lenovo)
ThinkPads:- T400[Win 7], T60[Win 7], IBM 240[Win XP]
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Apple:- Macbook Air [Snow Leopard]
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