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Name: CC Ryder Date: November 2, 2004 at 13:08:30 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: na
Comment:
My son in seminary has a late model Gateway laptop. (out of warranty I think) When he turns it on it asks him for a 'hdd 0 password', or something like that. Worked fine yesterday, gets that on bootup today. Gateway wants money to help him. I have never heard of that before. Has anyone had experience with this?
Name: Imaiius Date: November 2, 2004 at 14:45:51 Pacific
Reply:
maybe you need to go look for seting in the bios, if you ressive this messange in the boot secance.
if is it not in the bios, maybe it a security programme that was install before window load.
So what i will try if i was you, it to format the hard drive #0 whit a windows format disckette if it not a bios option
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Response Number 2
Name: Boogyman Date: November 2, 2004 at 20:41:27 Pacific
Reply:
Maybe you could clear your CMOS. If you open your laptop and look on the motherboard, there should be a jumper(located in different places depending on your motherboard) that you can use to erase boot up passwords.
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