HDD Password

Bagel3

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. Thanks

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. Thanks

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

Tom Dunne

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.

Bagel3

Thanks for reply