What our customers say:

“Fantastic service guys, really slick payment system, smart site and straightforward program.

Thank you so much for your help. Another site wanted to charge me $50, but at $20 for a 250GB drive, the price is right to get back the use of an old drive. Many thanks again.”

Greg Musser

“I'd just like to thank you guys at HDD Unlock for successfully unlocking my Seagate 7200.10 250GB IDE (ST3250820A) drive!

The total process took about 90 minutes and now I'm happily using my hdd again.

Once again, Thankyou!”

Justin M

“Excelent software! Unlocked my old xbox hdd in minutes. Super fast processing of unlock code and software accepted instantly. And the best bit of all is the price! I will highly recommend this software to friends.”

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HDD Unlock Wizard is a user-friendly application which allows you to easily remove HDD password. IDE and SATA hard disk drives are supported. Both User and Master password can be removed.

While unlocking, HDD Unlock Wizard will erase and re-certify the drive.
If you need unlocking which is safe to your data, please use A-FF Repair Station

HDD Unlock Wizard supports:

Unlocking of desktop drives
Unlocking of X-BOX drives
Unlocking of 2.5-inch laptop drives

List of supported drives

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Unlocking of a 80GB HDD takes approximately 25 minutes. 2.5 inch notebook drives need slightly more time.

What is HDD Password?

All hard disk drives have the possibility to set a hardware password, thus making the drive completely inaccessible unless a correct password is provided during the BIOS POST test. When you set a password on your notebook, the drive becomes locked as well. XBox gaming consoles and some desktop computers can also lock hard disk drives. This is usually called "HDD password" or "ATA password".

If you forget the original HDD password, there is no way of restoring it by generic system tools. HDD Unlock Wizard incorporates proprietary unlocking algorithms which allow to remove an unknown HDD password and make hard drive usable again.