However, a password protected hard disk can't be used externally. Leave both fields blank and save. Is there a way to completely washout without caring any data loss??? When I do work for people, I don't really want to open their computer chassis either. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. Herhaal stappen 1 en 2 totdat u het bericht System Disable Systeem uitgeschakeld Afbeelding 7 ziet.
Dec 16, 2010 Dell Laptop with bios or hard drive password set? Press and hold the power button for a minute to completely discharge any power in the main board components. I don't know the pricing, but I've seen them. For hard drive password locks - I believe that that they normally have a small crypto chip on the circuit board. From this point on, we will no longer provide assistance for these issues on Spiceworks, publicly or privately. How could this have happened, and how do i get oast it so i can use my own computer again? Please help me, Im not that good with computers and I don't want to loose the money I paid for it.
I wear a lot of hats - Developer, Database Administrator, Help Desk, etc. Laptop computers use far more stringent methods of securing themselves than old desktops used to. Even if you put the drive in another pc you won't have access to it a hdd password is encoded on the disk. There are tools that claim thet can but ive never seen one that worked. I booted up from A: when I tried to run debug. ? Simply said you provide the pwd you want to confirm, the chip says Yes or No but you cannot guess which pwd would leads to Yes.
There are some companies that claim to be able to recover hdd passwords and data but they are very expensive and do no guarantee their work. You cannot access data on this hard drive without the correct password. This is what i get when i turn it on. Any pointers as to questions I can ask or what I should do, I would appreciate it. I want to upgrade mine to bigger hard drive.
That can access and clean any drive. You would need to either customize the internal hard drive firmware or zap just the password off the platter leaving all the other data in tact. Hard disk passwords don't involve encryption so they are not as secure as a good encrypting scheme. At least some Thinkpads have different procedures for removing the hard drive password depending on whether it is the same or different from the power-on password. Thank you for your help, email removed Administrator password for Dell Latitude D820 Hi, I lent out my dell to my buddy awhile back, and i just got it back finally and I have the gray screen of death. That is it only does what has been explained in this thread and that classifies it as a hacktool.
Did you try physically removing the drive and trying to access it while attached to another system? It's also consistent with what Steve Gibson said in the of his podcast. Your post suggests that you have a corporate or large business account. If it can't be bypassed, then the burden falls on the end user not to forget it. Those are not an option any more; just says to enter a password. Choose yes 9Operation successful It should tell you it was successful. You have to substitute 12345 with your 5-character service tag number. Some technical knowledge and possibly some additional hardware is required.
I have to approach these situations cautiously, as you do too. If you follow the directions in the link, they will be able to verify that it does belong to you; and then they can help you get access to the device again. I'm 36year old single mother; a do it yourself kinda gal. If Windows fails to boot, perhaps yielding the infamous Blue Screen of Death, then the hard disk password is not your problem. The number of bad guesses varies, but seems to always be small. I don't know why you have a problem with another solution.
Windows disk management didn't see the disk at all, but it did show up in Device Manager. Hopefully she erased the stuff about that one crazy weekend with the Case of Wiskey, Donkey and the Priest --kidding. You can fix this problem by resetting your lost or forgotten Windows password using the third-party software:. There are two parts to the drive password - the one in setup, and the one stored on the drive itself. To remove the hard drive password, it's necessary to set a blank password go into the setup page with the hard drive password, and enter the current password. My debug program has different date then command. And now i cannot acces my files anymore.
Full-disk encryption is available, and provides better protection. It does allow the option to boot from a cd tho so I booted from a linux live cd and it now allows me to use a version of linux so I can use the computer. Unacceptable but still possible solution: Erase the whole hard disk altogether with the password. Keep it in a safe place. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
I think we're single-handedly responsible for raising Spiceworks search results up for exactly this! More than one way to skin a cat? Unfortunately I dont have the info from the seller and besides Im days away from the seller. If someone is willing to spend the time, they can keep guessing password after password. Perhaps the biggest drawback is that the password only comes into play when a computer is turned on. Make sure you copy the latitude. At one point, Dell used before rebooting. I have been researching over the past 3 days to see what my options are. So to make a long ass story short I got my laptop back today and the person that had it decided to put in a different hard drive because the one that was in it had a virus on it.