Garrett, I believe you are reffering to the ATA Drive Lock feature. This can be easily defeated within matter of minutes. If you search for ATA Drive Lock attacks on google will you find plenty.
Or simply plugin the drive in a older laptop without the ATA Drive Lock. That will automatically unlock the drive. On 5/31/07, Garrett M. Groff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop has an option that is settable in the BIOS that > allows me to set a password on the HDD (separate from the user and > supervisor BIOS passwords). Cursory reading into this leads me to believe > that the password is actually written to the HDD, so removing the CMOS > battery or otherwise resetting the BIOS will not bypass this protection. > Transferring the hard disk to another machine will similarly fail to thwart > the password protection. I realize it's not encryption by any stretch (and > therefore off-topic), but how secure is this password protection? > Speculation aside, has anyone had experience using/bypassing/testing this > feature? If so, can you tell me how secure or insecure this password > protection is? I'm not necessarily looking for an airtight solution for this > particular machine, but if it's completely useless from a security > standpoint, I'd like to find out. > > Thanks, > > Garrett > _______________________________________________ > FDE mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde > > _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
