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hard drive password.
I have a Inspiron 2650 Laptop. One day, my daughter was on the laptop, and somehow set a hard drive password. Now everytime I turn it on, or try and go into BIOS, it asks for a password. After so many tries, it locks it out and doesnt let you do it. it asks for it right at boot up before it even loads windows.
I have even tried to reformat the computer, whether with fdisk (win98 boot disk) or through a windows XP cd. says it doesnt recognize any hard drive whatsoever.
how can I get rid of the password?
i have searched the internet, and tried some "backdoor" passwords that computer manuf's include, but I think all of them apply to BIOS passwords, rather than hard drive passwords.
any help would be great.
thank you
I have even tried to reformat the computer, whether with fdisk (win98 boot disk) or through a windows XP cd. says it doesnt recognize any hard drive whatsoever.
how can I get rid of the password?
i have searched the internet, and tried some "backdoor" passwords that computer manuf's include, but I think all of them apply to BIOS passwords, rather than hard drive passwords.
any help would be great.
thank you
- Get into the BIOS, Alt+P to the password page, enter the harddrive password to disable it. She has to let you know what it is. If she doesn't know it, call Dell and be prepared to prove ownership and they can provide a master password. If that doesn't work, order a new drive from a cheap online vendor (like zipzoomfly) and make her pay. She will be buying the old drive mounted on a wood plaque as a reminder of her deed. That is all it will be good for.
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Posted February 26th, 2005 00:00
From my limited experience with hard drive passwords you are stuck! Not only is the hard drive trash, but the laptop will not recognize any hard drive you try to put in the primary hard drive slot.
funtoupgrade
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Posted February 26th, 2005 01:00
Nope - just the hard drive and motherboard.funtoupgrade- Try this if everything else fails.We used this to find loss passwords. Read it first. Good luck! MP.
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Posted February 26th, 2005 03:00
well since you didn't bought it direclty from there, you can try talking with customer service first for transfer of ownership. this often happens when the computer is bought from a computer shop or an auction. after the transfer of ownership, you can ask customer service to transfer you to tech support for help.
@Infinite_Trial wrote:
well since you didn't bought it direclty from there, you can try talking with customer service first for transfer of ownership. this often happens when the computer is bought from a computer shop or an auction. after the transfer of ownership, you can ask customer service to transfer you to tech support for help.
He will have to show proof of ownership or customer service won't beable to tell if he owns it or not. He may beable to fax in his sales invoice to them along with proof of ID etc.
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Posted February 25th, 2005 23:00
what if I bought this laptop used? how do I prove ownership? obviously, it will not show me as the owner as I didn't buy it from Dell. I am sure this is out of warranty??