[Help] Can't format or anything on Hard Drive

I have a hitachi 250gb laptop S-ata hard drive. It came from a dead lenovo laptop that a friend gave to me. I've found out that formatting / partitioning the drive doesn't work.

When I used Hitachi's DFT (Drive Fitness Test) it came back with an 0x22 Error Code which stated "Drive is password protected".

I've searched Hitachi's site on how to remedy this, but to no avail of any solution.


Any suggestions?