i had a WD800BEVS locked and the password retrieved was proprietary to the bios .. it had spaces with 00's

hours i tried with mhdd 4.5 !! (not 4.6 that cant run the script) and got the cs.bin and retrieved 22.bin from hdd but pwd was not cleartext.
gave up on that approach.. tried hdat2 also.. no go (i was missing 00 on hex of password beginning.. so it would have worked if i knew where password began. i do now due to i repassworded if and redumped and saw it cleartext in 22.bin)

so i ran into this
http://lagunabeachcomputer.com/how-t...user-password/
and i must stay WOW the guy is charging 4.99 for downloading ZU.exe!!!
LOL HES NOT EVEN THE AUTHOR OF IT!
anyways i have the non virus version so dont pay that joker $5 ( he took advantage of the extra traffic i brought to his page and he added price..)
here u go the newest one.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/k2...tta.050911.rar

other link further down post is older version

finaly tried zu.exe in secondary port of sata on G31M-ES2L non combined mode (ide not ahci mode) in bios and booted dos
typed zu.exe /s
Unlocked.. BINGO!

glad i didnt have to throw it back in drawer for another year of dust collecting.

here is more info on writer of this super cool tool by Moltke
http://forums.mydigitallife.info/thr...l=1#post842423

thanks quid!