I spoke to my contact at IBM and asked him if there was anyway around the hard disk password and he pointed me to this. I then asked him if that was company policy or if there was "really" a way in. He said that their service staff may have a trick but if they do they are not sharing it with him. Doesn't sound hopefull at all.


This document contains information on how to set, remove or change a hard drive password on your IBM ThinkPad 365X, 380, 385, 560, 750, 755, 760, 765.

Note: Do not forget your hard disk password! Keep it in a safe place. If you forget your hard disk password, there is no way to reset your password or recover data in the hard disk drive. Neither an IBM authorized reseller nor IBM marketing
representative can make the hard disk drive usable.


*Removing a Hard Disk Password:
The procedure to remove a hard disk password depends on whether or not it is set to the same password as the power-on password
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Full article and instructions are here:

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview...sg1YAST-3JXNTY