Good day to all.
I would like to understand why my hard drive is locked when accessed in another laptop.
HISTORY: Hitachi hard drive is from an Acer Extensa 5420 laptop. Laptop is dead already. I set-up a BIOS password on the laptop, but I did not set up any hard drive encryption or password. The drive is travelstar 5K160, 160GB.
I tried using a USB enclosure for the drive and accessed it in another laptop but it's not readable perhaps due to the password. It is detected by the device manager with the right capacity. It's also recognized in the disk management but can't be initialized, maybe due to the password again.
I'm not sure if my analysis are correct, but I hope you could shed out clarifications and best of all, solution for the drive.
I tried using Testdisk but it won't continue, unknown error (23).
I badly need the files. Please help.
With much appreciation and anticipation,
Duke
I would like to understand why my hard drive is locked when accessed in another laptop.
HISTORY: Hitachi hard drive is from an Acer Extensa 5420 laptop. Laptop is dead already. I set-up a BIOS password on the laptop, but I did not set up any hard drive encryption or password. The drive is travelstar 5K160, 160GB.
I tried using a USB enclosure for the drive and accessed it in another laptop but it's not readable perhaps due to the password. It is detected by the device manager with the right capacity. It's also recognized in the disk management but can't be initialized, maybe due to the password again.
I'm not sure if my analysis are correct, but I hope you could shed out clarifications and best of all, solution for the drive.
I tried using Testdisk but it won't continue, unknown error (23).
I badly need the files. Please help.
With much appreciation and anticipation,
Duke