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hard drive password bypassing
Name: cbas Date: November 19, 2003 at 11:50:09 Pacific OS: windows XP CPU/Ram: Pentium m
Comment:
I recently bought a used dell laptop (big mistake on my part). When I turn it on, a grey screen comes up and asks me for a hard drive password. It says it is protected by some sort of hard drive authentication. I'm not really sure what to do with it. I was hoping someone could tell me how to bypass it somehow.
Name: CliffG Date: November 19, 2003 at 16:02:36 Pacific
Reply:
If it's a bios password then you may be able to open it up and disable it, have a search about on google etc.
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Response Number 2
Name: etsbed Date: November 20, 2003 at 05:09:18 Pacific
Reply:
On desk top PC's (may be the same for laptops, I'm not sure) if you take the CMOS battery out until it powers down completely - this can take quite some time, 12 hrs plus - the CMOS memory is lost and so will the password, this just means that you have to manually put in things such as the time etc...
Summary: "....i took it to a repair shop and they said an IC had to be replaced and they did it but now they say the password on the hdd is still there." That's exactly what I said would happen in response 18....
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