I bought used Seagate, but it's locked

[vixing]

Hi, I bought used Seagate 500GB Disk: ST3500312CS SC13 [500,1 Gbytes] for very cheap.
When I connect it to my PC, computer stops responding. When I connect HDD to my older PC and I boot to windows, it says that Sata disk is locked with User password. How can I format this disk? I lost contact with that guy...

 

[a little black duck]

Car boot sale? Sounds very much like a case of "buyer beware" Sorry, but Tom's will not help with by-passing or cracking passwords. If you cannot get hold of the person you bought the HDD from, then congratulations you are now the proud owner of a 500GB brick.

 

[vixing]

Or I can find a way to unlock it. Can't I?

 

[poweruser_24]

Your choice is to delete the partitions on the drive. If you cannot do that due to the password problem, then it is possible that the drive may have a password set in the drive bios (although I only remember laptops doing this kind of thing).

In that case, your options are to try Seatools or Discwizard from Seagate, they may help (or not). Contact Seagate directly.

 

[vixing]

I think there's set an User password, that's why it was so cheap - probably someone forgot it, so I can use Master password (Seagate and 25 spaces) to retrieve it.
Where do I type that password? I need to use Seatools?

 

[vrumor]

No one here can help you bypass any PW for ANY reason. So take it as a lesson learned. This post will be closed.

 

[Mousemonkey]

This topic has been closed by Mousemonkey