Locked Harddrive

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Colin_S

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Firstly, hello. First post.

I have a Compaq laptop which i have managed to fry the system board, processor and 512 mbs of ram. I had not backed up my harddrive for a couple of months and need info from it.

I have an older dell laptop that i do not really use, so through the compaq hard drive into the dell laptop and was given the message:

"hard-disk ~**********-d35B, the system primary HDD, is protected by a pass word authentication system.............." and asks for a password. I do not have the password for this, how do i go about getting the password, or how do i go about getting past this.

Many Thanks

Colin
 
Does anyone know a name of a bios password cracker?

Also i have never set a password on this harddrive and i have had the machine since new. Why is there on on it? Is there anyway to get this password turned of or find out the password. As i said i have never set a password. See's a bit sh!t that i buy a laptop that has a HD in it, so the HD and i can not use my possesion in the legal way i want.

Also my need laptop is a Compaq, if i put the HD in that, will it work. I don't really want to start messing about with my brand new laptop though.

Also do you know if a External USB unit would work?
 
HARD DISK LOCKS


Some laptops provide a utility to lock a hard disk with a password. These passwords are not the same as BIOS passwords. Moving a locked hard disk to another machine will not unlock it, since the hard disk password is stored in the hard disk firmware and moves with the hard disk. Also, adding a new (unlocked) hard disk to a locked machine may cause the new hard disk to become locked. Also, note that hard disk lock passwords cannot be removed by reformatting the disk, fdisk or any other software procedure. Usually, the BIOS password and hard disk lock passwords are the same and canbe recovered by the BIOS password directly from the laptop security chip (after it is removed from the system board.) However, it is possible that the BIOS password and hard disk lock passwords may be different. In this case the BIOS password will not unlock the hard disk. You can test to determine if your hard disk is locked by attempting to access it in another laptop

ou can download this and see if it helps i am not sure it will but it is worth a try... You maye able to get to your files via dos?? http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html
 
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Classic_house said:
Usually, the BIOS password and hard disk lock passwords are the same and can be recovered by the BIOS password directly from the laptop security chip (after it is removed from the system board.)
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Thanks, where would this be, i have my laptop opened up so i may try that as i have never set the password and have had the machine from new, so i think it would be likely to be the same as the BIOS password.
 
Where do you live? I will see if i can find a service because it will not be possible for you to do this.. You do not have the hardware to do this...
 
Hard Drive Lock Up

I own 3 compaq laptops, have you tried resetting the cmos/bios battery. It is a separate battery that is under the keyboard. Not all compaq models are the same, if you don't know, go to hp.com and select support/drivers, and find your model# and download the maintenance and service manual and it will show you right where it is. It looks like the same 3 vold round battery or similar and it it simply to unplug. I have had to do this a few times on my boyfriends compaq and it worked with no additional problems. Now this only resets the boot up/cmos screen so that you can run dos/setup. You will need to go into the bios screen at startup to reset time/date, You don't have to have a hard drive installed to do this. But after the reset and you turn off your computer/or restart, it will not detect a hard drive because there is no hard drive there to detect, but if you computer is locked andneeds a password, the above will reset your computer to default/factory settings and all you will have to do is reset the time/date,.
 
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