Help needed in unlocking OEM drive (made by Toshiba)

So, I have an HP Pavilion and I just got a new hard drive for it.


Left is the old drive, right is the new drive.

What I did is I first put the new drive in a 2.5" enclosure, hooked it up to my laptop and cloned the internal drive's partition to the new drive.

I physically removed the factory Toshiba drive from my Pavilion, then transplanted the new Hitachi 7200RPM into it. Works beautifully.

So now that I've successfully upgraded the internal hard drive to a 7200RPM drive, I'm left w/ the stock drive. I put this thing into the aforementioned enclosure and I can't get any computer to recognize it. The drive would not go into ready state and wouldn't talk to anyone, but the internal bus of the particular laptop it came out of. Since I have a new, faster HDD, there is no reason to put this thing back into this laptop and seeing it won't work anywhere else, I effective have a paper weight until I can unlock it. Any idea?

I searched Google and came upon someone else's thread with exactly the same problem.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=793571

I went into BIOS and I found the drive was not "locked", but I locked it and unlocked it a few times just like the original poster of that thread. That unlocked it for him. Didn't do anything for me.

 

The drive shouldnt be locked. I have a couple of HP's and none had any issues with the drive being locked. I have used a Fujitsu drive from a Compaq R3000 and used it on an Acer & Toshiba without any issues.

AFAIK, HP's consumer notebooks do no come with locked HDD's.
Have you played around with the jumper settings?
BTW, What HP model are you using?

 

Pavilion ze2308wm, which was a special model made for Wal-Mart's black Friday sale, but I believe its identical to either the ze2000t or the ze2000z