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Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. By Tim Fisher. Tim Fisher. Tim Fisher has more than 30 years' of professional technology experience. He's been writing about tech for more than two decades and serves as the VP and General Manager of Lifewire. Tweet Share Email. In This Article.

About HDDErase. Thoughts on HDDErase. Download HDDErase. This review is of HDDErase version 4. What We Like. What We Don't Like. Was this page helpful? Thanks for letting us know! Email Address Sign up There was an error. Please try again. You're in! Thanks for signing up. There was an error. I can tell you that while I had no success using the HDDErase software to unlock the drive, I did finally after a lot of experimenting and research have luck with another utility called MHDD.

However , I don't recall if this was actually part of what actually led to getting the drive unlocked, so I would only try it if you're unable to access the drive at all in MHDD. Also, I do remember manually editing the config file for MHDD to alter the way it detected the drive. Sorry I can't be more precise, but I hope that at least gets you in the right direction. If you have access to a desktop with a SATA interface, that definitely may be an easier way to get the drive unlocked.

Well, I appreciate your feedback, but I'm still stumped. Best I could get was "Drive Not Ready". You have to know the password to use unlock or disable password commands. I finally managed to get the drive unlocked after I connected it to a second desktop computer. On this one, I was able to go into the BIOS and reset the password, using "idrive" as the "old" password. Not sure why I couldn't get this working on any of the other computers I was connecting the drive to.

Anyway, thanks for the help! I was just about to write that drive off I have a hard drive which i want to unlock set password cant remember i dont however want to erase the data on it. Thanks tom. Thanks for creating this utility! It's really appreciated for when you don't want random people accessing your old files, from your previous computers. I've used it three times in total. Unfortunately the secure erase failed after having run the whole night.

I don't know what went wrong, but I got a new drive from Lenovo. Second attempt was the Samsung SSD I bought for my X60s, and the secure erase was completed succesfully in very short time. Third attempt on my T42 that I wanted to erase so that I could sell it. It started and ran without problems, and I had the power adapter plugged into the laptop. I had put the laptop away, and hadn't noticed the mains switch was off, so it ran out of battery.

That left the drive in a locked state. When powered on, it asks for password, but doesn't accept "idrive". I decided to try another computer, an older Fujitsu-Siemens laptop. It also asked for password, but there "idrive" worked. HDD Erase could not reset the drive with any password, so that left the drive in locked state.

Neither could MHDD with "idrive" as password. What did remove the harddrive lock was attempting to start a new secure erase. It then sets the password "idrive", and when it asks if I want to proceed, I enter No. The harddrive lock is then removed, and the drive works again.

It is important that remove all the information that the hard drive contains, lest it falls into the wrong hands. To do so, you will need a hard drive eraser. Here are some top six hard drive erasers software for Windows and how to erase a hard drive. Type "erase-all-data and press enter. The process will start and when it ends you will get this report.

Unstuff the downloaded file and move the hard drive eraser to the Apps Folder in your hard drive. Launch the application by double-clicking on the Permanent Eraser icon.