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> >(01) Take a big heavy magnet and run it through .. see if it erases the >entire harddrive .. with password. Sure way to destroy any hard drive. Alot of designs have special servo tracks to do positioning. This would also wipe out low level formatting. It is a rare case that you can low level format an ide drive. This is partly due to the special methods like Zone Bit Recording used. I doubt that you could recover servo tracks even if you could low level format the drive. >(02) Find a similar used or new harddrive .. try to replace circuitry and >see if you can remove harddrive .. i was able to recover my entire harddrive >data by replacing circuit board .. and had all my data recovered .. > Possible. It depends if the password is stored in memory on the circuit board or on the disk itself. >73 Eric ecottrell@doble.com