Dell harddisk security sata port remove - Dell Inspiron 1501 Notebook

Hi,

The hard drive has been locked in the BIOS. If you cannot get into the bios with a password you can contact Dell for a code to unlock the BIOS and drive ... Here is a link that might help.

https://www.dell.com/community/Windows-General/Harddisk-Security-Sata-Disk-0-Lock-on-hard-drive/m-p/4429575

Are you sure it wasn't stolen, to begin with?

that may be a virus/.

shut the computer off cold with power button, wait 20 seconds and restart it.

something has locked the hardrive

If a hard disk is password protected, you must get the password. There is normally no way around it.

However, if the user password has been set, the administrator password on the hard disk can be used to delete it. I am not talking about Windows accounts here, I refer to passwords stored in the firmware of the hard disk.

It seems that drive lock for this drive is enabled from BIOS. Is BIOS also password protected? Drivelock can be removed from there.

i think the problem is with ur SATA HDD. To confirm, try another SATA HDD on ur mother board and see if the problem persists

I will advice you to exchange the HDD with someone or with brand new one as it seems to be problem with drivers of the sata.