Power on the laptop with no hard drive in it and enter into the BIOS setup.ģ. With the power off, remove the hard drive entirely from the computer.Ģ. Perform this at your own risk because hot plugging devices MAY cause data loss or damage to the computer.ġ. If the password is stored on the hard drive itself (which this is new to me) then I don't know how you could retrieve it unless you nuke the drive and rebuild it from scratch. You can test to determine if your hard disk is locked by attempting to access it in another laptop.Well, there's one mystery solved. In this case the BIOS password will not unlock the hard disk. Usually, the BIOS password and hard disk lock passwords are the same and we can recover 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.

Also, note that hard disk lock passwords cannot be removed by reformatting the disk, fdisk or any other software procedure. Also, adding a new (unlocked) hard disk to a locked machine may cause the new hard disk to become locked. 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. These passwords are not the same as BIOS passwords. 'Some laptops provide a utility to lock a hard disk with a password. You can test to determine if your hard disk is locked by attempting to access it in another laptop. Hey Jdallas on my firstpost/first link did you read this: Click to expand.LOL, I did, a couple of times.

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