External gpu enclosure for crypto install#
External gpu enclosure for crypto password#
External gpu enclosure for crypto windows#

Using Acronis, I cloned the old drive located in the Ultrabay onto the BDE drive located in the primary internal dirve location.

External gpu enclosure for crypto password#

The BIOS asks for the primary disk password during bootup, but you get the chance to redirect the boot up to the CD drive.Р В РІР‚СњР вЂ™Р’В¤. I rebooted to the USB-connected CD drive with Acronis.

External gpu enclosure for crypto install#

After powering down the computer, I put the old non-BDE drive (with a full XP install and data) into the Ultrabay, and the Acronis startup CD in a USB connected CD/DVD driveР В РІР‚СњР В РІвЂљВ¬. Putting the uninitialized BDE drive in the primary drive location, and setting User and Admin passwords in Bios.Р В РІР‚СњР РЋРЎвЂє. I recently got a BDE version of the same 7k320 drive.Р В РІР‚СњР В Р вЂ№. I have a Lenovo Z61p that had a non-BDE Hitachi 320 GB drive (7k320). Have you tried this with the external usb enclosure? Or have the USB enclosure already connected when you start the computer? (though this probably will still not work as I've once read that there is no command for transmitting the PW to the HD via USB.) However, with this setup you get prompted for the password when you put your computer into sleep or hibernation and later resume from either. and the normal bubble window pops up saying it is safe to remove.This is the same behavior you get when you put a password-protected HD in the ultrabay adapter and insert the adapter in a running system. The 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon in the Toolbar Tray does show it as non-lettered USB mass storage device.

External gpu enclosure for crypto windows#

Also, under Windows Explorer file manager there is no evidence of any new hard drive. However, under Device Mangler the drive does show up as an installed piece of hardware. just initialize under Vista from an external enclosure and format for reuse in other service.Р В РІР‚СњР В РІР‚С›lthough I hear an audible bell from the speakers when inserting the USB connector, no HDD at all shows up under Disk Management and there is no offer to initialize the drive. If it does, then at least you don't have to scrap ThinkPad HDDs whose HDD password have been forgotten. It will be interesting next week to see if Vista lets me initialize and reformat the PW protected HDDs. and the normal bubble window pops up saying it is safe to remove. I did not say yes because I did not want to risk destroying the data on the external PW protected HDD until I make a clone of it when my new Hitachi 320GB 7K320 BDE units arrive next week.Р В РІР‚СњР В РІР‚С›lthough I hear an audible bell from the speakers when inserting the USB connector, no HDD at all shows up under Disk Management and there is no offer to initialize the drive.

I Plug in a PW protected HDD in a 2.5' USB external enclosure and Vista shows it as a non-initialized HDD and offers to initialize it under Disk Management. I got home this afternoon with a new external 2.5' USB enclosure and tried using some of my spare HDD PW protected ThinkPad hardrives (non-BDE/FDE Seagate Momentus Lenovo Branded units) on both WinXP SP2 and Vista Business SP2 (32-bit). Just curious what others see in Window's Disk Management Console when they try plugging in a password protected ThinkPad HDD via an external 2.5' USB enclosure? I don't have an external 2.5 USB HDD enclosure right now to test using one of my spare ThinkPad HDDs (I used to have one but it has failed). I bought one of those external Seagate-Maxtor BlackArmor USB HDDs with AES hardware-based encrytion and sure as sh** WinXP allows me to destroy it's data every time it is attached ( but only before it's PW has been entered via the Maxtor Manager SW that comes with the BlackArmor). In other words, does WinXP think it's looking at a non-initialized, non-formated HDD and then ask you if you want to initialize it (like when you plug in a brand new external non-formated USB HDD and then bring up the Disk Management Console window)?

However, I'm curious if the HDD's data can be accidentally destroyed via WinXP's Computer Management/Disk Management console? If I remove my ThinkPad HDD without clearing the HDD password I understand that it is not accessible when placed in an external 2.5' USB enclosure.