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Re: Hard Drive password
> Does anyone know what the password does to lock the disk or where it is
> stored? I don't think it encrypts the contents of the disk. It must record
> the password on the disk itself. If so, you should at minimum, be able to
> use a disk utility to reformat the drive on another machine by taking the HD
> out of the case. And if we could determine where the password was stored,
> it might be feasible to selectively zero this information out.
The drive has a IDE command for the password. Thus one could assume that
the password is stored on the media.
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