Yeah, don't try and DIY this. The BIOS HD passwords are in the drive NVRAM on many of these drives, so you need to use the diagnostic port to even stand a chance (and on some Seagate drives like the F3, they lock this out to everyone but them) at it. ***GET ONE CHARACTER WRONG, and you are DONE -- you probably trashed it beyond even something DriveSavers can bypass. You're playing Russian Roulette by DIY removing it unless you have a PC-3000 or similar tool!!!***
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Yeah, don't try and DIY this. The BIOS HD passwords are in the drive NVRAM on many of these drives, so you need to use the diagnostic port to even stand a chance (and on some Seagate drives like the F3, they lock this port out to everyone but Seagate unless there's a bypass like how PC-3000 found one) at it. ***GET ONE CHARACTER WRONG, and you are DONE -- you probably trashed it beyond even something DriveSavers can bypass. You're playing Russian Roulette by DIY removing it unless you have a PC-3000 or similar tool!!!***
If the data is that critical, just send it to a lab to remove this.
Yeah, don't try and DIY this. The BIOS HD passwords are in the drive NVRAM on many of these drives, so you need to use the diagnostic port to even stand a chance (and on some Seagate drives like the F3, they lock this out to everyone but them) at it. ***GET ONE CHARACTER WRONG, and you are DONE -- you probably trashed it beyond even something DriveSavers can bypass. You're playing Russian Roulette by DIY removing it unless you have a PC-3000 or similar tool!!!***
If the data is that critical, just send it to a lab to remove this.