[ALUG] HDD recovery

[Mark Rogers]

Ricky Bruce wrote:
> Did the disk come from a Dell laptop?
>   

No, it's a 3.5" IDE from a Compaq PC. The tests I've done with it (other
than via USB adapter) have been done in the same PC it came from.

> If so your sister may have set up a hdd password, which is set
> independently of the bios password. It will lock the disk contents
> unless it is sucessfully entered and would result in the disk looking
> empty to things like GParted.
>   

Although not the case here for the reasons above, that's interesting to
know so thanks for that.

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