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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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