Tecra M5: How to use HDD password when HDD is connected as external device?

I have a Toshiba Tecra M5 with MK1032GSX hard disk. I put a bios password and HDD password. Every day I power on my laptop by digit my password only one time: unlock disk and bios. The screen for password is before windows starts.
One day motherboard of my laptop is broken, I bring my pc on Toshiba support center (less disk), and I waiting for it (2 month ago). I need to read my date from disk but it is locked by password. The disc is SATA disk, I put it on a desktop and I see it in bios and in peripheral of windows resource, but I don't see it in explorer.
Any of software that I tried (HDD unlock, atapwd...) wont work. I have my password, I have not forgotten it.
How can I read my date? Can you help me?
Thank you.

as far as i know its not possible to remove the hardware password from the HDD other than by using your laptop.
Still if you google arround I think I saw once something about a Linux distro that was able to unlock some HD's. Not sure if thats still arround but perhaps you can give it a go. Still I would not advise doing something like that has its possible that it messes up your HD and then you will be stuck with a good paperweight.
The proper course of action when you send ur laptop to warranty is to make a full backup. There are image software out there that allows you to make a mirror image of your HD for example. I, myself, bought a 100GB USB2 2.5' HD that fits my pocket and goes with me everywhere. I've encrypted it with TrueCrypt so no one has access to my sensible information if loose it and I make regular backups from the laptop to this HD. It saved my life at least 2x.
Just my 2 cents
Cheers

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