Password for Hard Drive?

dewain · Joined: 21 Jan 2006 Posts: 53

Hello there. Me and my friend are really stuck with his old/new notebook, bought on e-bay. He called me for some help on this, and I was thinking that he is talking nonsense like a noob, but the situation is really heavy. That god damn laptop does have password over the hard drive. He don’t know the password, and the person from e-bay has just disappeared. It seems like the machine is ok, but how to log in? After every third attempt, there is a message that says “no operating system found”. Thanks in advance.

christophe · Joined: 09 Nov 2004 Posts: 97

Really weird. The notebook is ok but it has password. I don’t know for sure but you can try to fix the master boot record with XP professional CD or some other utility for that. If you can log in to the recovery console with XP cd in order to create new Master Boot Record, then you are saved. Because I believe that the password is stored there. Where else should it be anyway? The other method is to take out that hard drive and to connect it somehow to other machine. After that, I think that Partition Magic can do great job for both of you.

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