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Harddrive Password
Name: ChrisG (by ChristopherTGarrett) Date: August 10, 2008 at 10:25:46 Pacific OS: Windows Vista Home Premiu CPU/Ram: 1.6 Ghz dual core 1 GB Ra Product: Acer Aspire 5610z
Comment:
For some reason my laptop is asking for a password after the Acer boot screen. I am not sure what is up with this. I cannot do anything with it I have tried everything. There is an option in the BIOS for a password but I never set one. Why would it do this on its own? The laptop still has a warrenty thru Wal-Mart. I have called and they said it needed to be sent in. I was hopeing i can fix this myself. They said the drive was bad. The drive is detected in the BIOS and I also tried to run the diagnostic from Hatachi. I was going to test the drive but get a message the disk is locked and when i try to erase the disk i get the message the disk is locked. Is it possible for me to remove the password?
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Name: ChrisG (by ChristopherTGarrett)
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