Lost my HD password

How can I bypass the HD password ? I've set one and forgot it over the weekend. Need the HD badly. Don't want to spend any money on the HD. Can anyone help me with that ? I've been searching for an answer quiet a long time. I really really badly need some help. I would greatly appreciate it. Please help me

what do you mean HD password? At bios level, or OS level, or what?

I mean the Hard Drive password. When you boot it asks you for it before anything is loaded, like the BIOS Password. But this one is on the HD. If you connect the HD to another PC it won't see the drive, so I have already tried that. I'm totally lost You can't even see the HD in the BIOS :/

I guess this is a special security feature of the hard drive, good luck.

(^~;?(What about low-level formatting?)

I think he's talking a BIOS password.

The reason the other machine won't see it is the jumpers.

You can remove the battery from the motherboard. I'm pretty sure it's got to be in a certain position, so write that down. Leave the battery out for 24 hours. Put it back in and turn it on. The motherboard will set back to defaults, meaning, no password for you

look in your motherboard manual, you can set a certain jumper to a different position for 3 minutes pull the plug out and your bios is reset

I'm sure that it isn't the BIOS password, because I can get into the BIOS. It's turned off there. I can also boot from other HDs. I've even gone as far as taking out the battery and still trying it, but it doesn't seem to work. Low-Format? Wouldn't I lose all the data then? How can I low format when I can't see the HD? I think this problem is way worse than I thought :/ I've found a forum with a person having the same problem.... they didn't find a solution.

1) keep on guessing to you get it right.
2) Email the maker of the drive, sometimes they put a backdoor password in them.

Yes, low-level format would make lose you all data.

How can I low format when I can't see the HD? <---(~~;(Yeah, but for instance Linux fdisk do without bios detection, try several formatter, powermax, IBM drive fitness and so on.)

By the way, IBM HD password is said to be strongest among HD password unlockable even in IBM factory, this in other words means that there would be hardness degree. At least when you see the password screen, bios should read some data on MBR. In this case, we have just to destroy mbr. However some HD preserve the data in eeprom. It is unrecoverable, if the rom is not easy to remove.

try to put in the startup disk and type fdisk /mbr it would remove the master boot record ....but if your computer is encrypted in anyway then you will not be able to get back all the data that you have in your HD. Good luck......