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 No.14172

They brought this Alienware 17 R4 laptop into the shop because they couldn't boot it

It had it's BIOS locked behind a password, and I got the master password for it from a kind soul in some forum, It now asks for an HDD password which I don't have, and nobody's replying after I asked for the HDD password lmao

I asked the owner, and she told me it's alright if I wipe it.

However, I couldn't manage to wipe it through Disk Manager "Virtual Disk Manager: Invalid function" or through DiskPart "DiskPart has encountered an error: Incorrect function. See the System Event Log for more information."

Booting through Gparted, it wouldn't load the drive at all: "fsyncing/closing /dev/sdc: Input/Output error," even when the drive is recognized when booting through Linux Mint. I don't know how much about Linux either, but I tried to format from there as well with the basic tools, but that didn't work either. I don't remember the error code, though.

I tried to boot through ShredOS, but at some point it went to 200 KB/s. Hard drive is 1TB, so that would've taken forever and I really don't want to wait that long. If it's the only option I guess I'll go with that one, though.

What can I do now? Anybody got any ideas?

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 No.14183

boot any linux with the drive plugged in

use hdparm to disable ata security

if that fails see SECURITY PREPARE ERASE and SECURITY ERASE UNIT

if that doesnt work you are fucked

niggers.

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