Toshiba Laptop Hdd Password Problem


My toshiba laptop (satellite centrino). The computer froze and started making weird noises, i powered off and when it rebooted it gave me a message for the "hdd password", right now i can't access the data neither can we start the computer. What can i do to get the data out of the hard drive?

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