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is he trying to run a repair of the OS and not a format and getting the admin PW? maybe it is in need of a FDISK /MBR because as far as i'm aware there are no passwords that would stop you doing a format only access the drive unless its some military grade encryption.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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and both drives tell you this, regardless of which method you use to plug them in, and which PC you plug them into?

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Originally posted by Spydr4569:

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After reading through this thread, thought I would throw in my 2 cents. try running the cmd prompt and type in diskpart, list disk (this should list all the hdd's connected.) select disk n (where n is the number of your disk you want to clean with the password on it.)
after that type list partition, then select partition n (same as select disk n)
lastly, type delete partition override.

hope this helps

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Originally posted by Spydr4569:

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do the same steps again ignoring anything to do with partitions

Type "select disk n" (n is the number of the disk)
type "delete disk override"

this should completely erase the hdd completely.
Hope this works.

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Originally posted by truno:

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he's only getting the password prompt when he uses the manufactures software. have you tried leaving the password field blank or googleing the softwares name and the word password next to it? does the windows user account you are using have a password or the admin account have a password? if so try using these when it asks you for a password.

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