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My computer (Lenovo T61p) broke recently, and I need to recover the information off my hard-drive. The hard-drive is password protected, and I know the password, however I also selected the "Use Passphrase" option in the Lenovo's bios settings, so it encrypted the password. This means the hard-drive password is the encrypted version rather than the one I know, and my new computer doesn't use the same encryption method, so I need to be able to recreate the encryption.
If there is a better way to approach this problem, that answer would be just as appreciated.
Ah, that's unfortunate. Thanks for the link, I'll try using the master password to reset the user key like it suggested on that page, but I'm pretty sure I wasn't using full disk encryption, just a hard-drive password. Also, the only other Lenovo I have access to is a 3000 N200, which is apparently not similar enough to the T60 and T61. – BenjaminRH – 2013-01-27T17:55:56.600