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Re: Need help with HDD password

Are you speaking of a BIOS password perhaps? If so please click HERE. You will need to know what bios chip is on your motherboard. HTH
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Re: Need help with HDD password

Quote originally posted by romj3115 ...
Well i try to reinstall windows but i won't let me since it has the HDD Password. When it turns on that's the first thing that ask. That's not the password that you put in windows as different users or administrator. That's the Hard Disk Drive, if that's what HDD means.

Also is a Gateway Solo.
Contact Gateway and see if they can give you a password.
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Quote originally posted by Bear ...
Are you speaking of a BIOS password perhaps? If so please click HERE. You will need to know what bios chip is on your motherboard. HTH
If it is a BIOS password that we're talking about, you might be able to reset the BIOS by: unplugging the laptop's power cord, removing the laptop's main battery, opening the lappy, and removing the CMOS battery on the motherboard. Leave the CMOS battery out of the system for a while (in some instance, up to 30 minutes), and then put it all back together.
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If it is a BIOS password that we're talking about, you might be able to reset the BIOS by: unplugging the laptop's power cord, removing the laptop's main battery, opening the lappy, and removing the CMOS battery on the motherboard. Leave the CMOS battery out of the system for a while (in some instance, up to 30 minutes), and then put it all back together.
i was just about to say that, it sounded like a bios password and is a simple matter of reseting the CMOS
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and is a simple matter of reseting the CMOS
Yup, should be if it's only the BIOS password.
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Re: Need help with HDD password

Its not a a BIOS password he said it is a HDD password look here
-->http://www.soft32.com/download_25507.html This is just one of the thousands available.
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Its not a a BIOS password he said it is a HDD password look here
-->http://www.soft32.com/download_25507.html This is just one of the thousands available.

That's just impossible. There has to be *some* way to be able to reformat this drive.

Trust me, if you can get the disk in a system, you can reformat it. I know of debug commands you can enter in DOS that will wipe out the drive. Heck, using the UNIX dd command correctly can simply write all 0's to the drive, effectively wiping out anything on the drive. This doesn't just reformat it-- it wipes out the partition table itself. That should do it for you, and you should be able to reuse that drive afterwards.
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Quote originally posted by JR85023 ...
Its not a a BIOS password he said it is a HDD password...
It never hurts to clarify though- people will often mix up technical terms, and it this case the differentiation is important.
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Re: Need help with HDD password

Thanks guys,

I will just take it to give me estimate $$ of on this. I go from there. :-|
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Re: Need help with HDD password

You can always try the Ultimate Boot CD. Not sure it would help, but whenever I have problems related to that I use it.
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