2008/11/21 Chris Zakelj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > An even easier solution would be to just buy a new HDD, and stick the > original into a static bag. Why make it harder than it needs to be?
True, but this is a home system, and I'm cheap. I want that 170GB drive ;) A side issue I have found is some laptop drives are non-transferable - they seem cryptographically locked to the controller they came from. I had 2 otherwise identical acer aspire laptops, both with Hitachi drives. One got wine spilled onto the keyboard and did something to the motherboard. Tried to whip out this harddrive and put it into the other laptop, and was prompted for a password after POST. I had never set any password (the machine was prepped at the factory). This occurred before any data on the HD could be read, so I think the facility is in the circuitry rather than the physical disk. -- John
