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HDD Password

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  • 31-01-2009 1:17pm
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    Bagel3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭


    Hi all, has anyone ever come accross a problem of a laptop looking for a HDD Password on an Acer Extensa 5220 with a western digital HDD. It looks for this upon starting up. It seems its not a bios password. I e-mailed western digital and they told me to replace the harddrive. All help appreciated. Thanksicon5.gif


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    Ghost Train
    Registered Users Posts: 30,061 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    Bagel3 wrote: »
    Hi all, has anyone ever come accross a problem of a laptop looking for a HDD Password on an Acer Extensa 5220 with a western digital HDD. It looks for this upon starting up. It seems its not a bios password. I e-mailed western digital and they told me to replace the harddrive. All help appreciated. Thanksicon5.gif

    if its a hard drive password as bios time then not much you can do, you'll need the password or a new drive

    if kind of a security measure if the laptop gets stolen, the data on the drive is protected


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    Tom Dunne
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    Yes, we use HDD passwords in work on all our laptops.

    There isn't much you can do, bar put in the password. Moving the HDD to another machine won't work, as the password is actually on the HDD itself.


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    Bagel3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭Bagel3


    Thanks for reply


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