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Answer» OK so my wife turns on here Asus computer and is ASKED for a Hard Disk password. Thinking it was a BIOS password I wiped the CMOS and it did squat. That is when I realized that it was asking for a Hard Disk Password. My wife did not set one and I cant get past screen right after I power it on. Running a Boot CD with some utilities on it I found out that> Does anyone have any ideas about how to remove, get passed, hack or what ever this hard drive password?The way a hard disk password works is part of the ATA SPECIFICATION; if a password is required by the Hard disk, it will only respond to ID and a few other basic ATA COMMANDS (and of course the command for specifying the password and unlocking the drive). The process usually goes: 1. Computer is booted 2. Hard drive powers up. It's logic determines that it is set to require a password 3. hard drive will respond to the ID command as the BIOS inspects drives. 4. the BIOS will see that the drive needs to be unlocked, prompt the user for the password, and pass it along. The hard drive than decides whether it will unlock itself. If it doesn't, the hard drive basically doesn't exist for the duration of the power on. The only way to bypass it would be to swap the logic boards of the drives, which requires you to purchase or otherwise get a hold of an identical drive. If no password was ever set on the drive, than it's probably also shot and/or corrupted, too.Thanks I appreciate the time you took to ANSWER the question (even though I dont like the answer...lol). So basically my only option is to scrap the hard drive and purchase a new one to put in it.?? Thanks again for the help. how to remove hard disk password? You cannot...see above ^^^only way to get around is to buy a new motherbord and logicboard that is exactly identical to your machine and install it in the current case and hope it doesn't have a HDD or bios password..... doing so will also force you to reinstall windows you have no choice but to re install it..... buying an hdd or removing/replacing the cmos battery won't clear the password.... it be better to get a new machine all together |
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