Re: [tlug] IBM R30 Laptop Issues

[Tobias Diedrich <ranma@example.com>]

Jim wrote:

> The hard drive locking is probably not a function of the hard drive, 
> but of the BIOS expecting certain data at certain locations on the 
> hard drive. 

You are wrong about that one.
Newer notebook drives support locking with a password.
See
http://www.heise.de/ct/english/05/08/172/
for some information on this topic.

> If you wipe the BIOS settings and can not access the hard drive 
> in the laptop, move the laptop hard drive to a normal desktop, 
> backup the laptop hard drive, then wipe it. I would expect a 
> wiped drive to work with the laptop. If not, restore the drive 
> image from the backup. 

Problem is, you can't backup a locked hard drive even from a
different computer. :-)

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