i have a toshiba satelite 2410 S185 notebook,i tried to turn it on and somehow i dont know what happened it wont boot up.. it keep asking me for a HDD password, which i never had....it wont let me goes to the bios and anything.. is there some code i have to type in for the Hardrive or so?
-   My password was changed another member of the house tried to log on to windows under the old password and now the bios says password frozen hdd, any way out of this problem without buying a new hdd?-   Guest
Oct 15, 2008
-   my little frankenstien laptop (lcd screen broke cuz a **** won't pay to fix it cuz his speaker fell on top of it during a move...) finally decided to give up. I was on fine and then I went to reboot my computer one day and when it came it back up it went to a boot prompt. i would try to boot it in safe mode or any of the other modes it asks for and every time it looks like it trys then stops and starts over. I got to the bios and it says hdd password froze. I lost the cd that had the drivers on it. is there anywhere i can download a new drivers cd?-   saguaro
Jun 13, 2008
-   I am receiving the same message when trying to start up that my operating system is not found. I have already replaced my hard drive twice after different problems so obviously there is some other issue. Any help is appreciated!-   Jen64
Apr 15, 2008
-   My password was changed another member of the house tried to log on to windows under the old password and now the bios says password frozen hdd, any way out of this problem without buying a new hdd?-   Guest
I suggest that you replace the hard drive with a new one.
But, just to check.. remove the hard Drive from the machine... (usually acessable under the machine via a couple of screws and usually just slides out etc) Then try to "Boot" the machine from CD or floppy.. (on say ya Windows XP CD, choosing Boot from CD from PC menu) if it does.. then it IS ya HD, if not then ya may have a Motherboard fault.
So do NOT change the drive.. at this juncture I would suggest ya go to a reputable PC repairer and ask for a "Quote" for the fix, and an explanation of what is/was wrong.
Nope, I have two harddrives with the same problem. I know both harddrives work fine just keeps asking for the HDD password no matter which i put in but the origional failing drive dose not ask for this HDD password it may be the formatting I'm going to try re-partitioning, and look on toshiba's technical site for more and try and post it back
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