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Caroline Perry Posted on Oct 15, 2013
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My friend bought a laptop (Acer Aspire 4520) when you turn it on you get a black scre en with a blue box that says Enter Password. I was able to find two bios passwords online that will take you to the next screen that says Enter SATA Port 0 HDD User Password. There are 8 available characters. Is there a way to get a master password for hdd or bypass this to see if windows is gonna load,? Can't do anything right now with it. I burned a cd Ultimate Boot CD but the computer wont read it even when you turn it off and back on

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That's the idea of HDD passwords. You can't access the data on it at all. Either by boot cd or physically removing the hard drive and connecting it to another pc, you still won't be able to access the drive. Two options, replace the hard drive and reload a clean o/s. Or, there is a service available that might remove the password and retain the data. There are also services that will remove the password and wipe the data, as a security measure. But at the cost of either of these services, makes better sense to replace the drive and reload the o/s. You can goole HDD Unlock and find the software easily. You would need to connect the drive to another working pc. Download and run the software on that password protected drive. It will tell you if it is unlockable. To bad it's not a Dell, I may be able to provide you with a p/w to unlock it.

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  • Posted on Jun 13, 2008

SOURCE: need to bypass primary master HDD user password

the only solution is for you to call the acer tech support and they can generate a password for you to gain access to your hard drive and bios.
visit: http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/forms/webpage.cfm?siteid=7117&areaid=2&website=AcerPanAm.com

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  • Posted on Aug 11, 2008

SOURCE: need to bypass primary master HDD user password

call the acer tech support or go on line a to www.acer.com and they should be able to get you need best regards mike

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jun 01, 2009

SOURCE: asking for password sata port pass

This is a "security" feature, to protect the files on the disk-drive from unauthorized access.

The computer supports "full-disk" encryption of each disk-drive inside your computer.

So, what password did you set when you first initialized this disk-drive?

If you don't know it, there's nothing you can do -- all the files on the disk-drive are _NOT_ accessible to you.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Dec 12, 2009

SOURCE: have a acer aspire 5515 notebook laptop it keeps

It sounds like you may need to go into the BIOS and change or disable the password. Alternatively, clear the CMOS.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Apr 15, 2011

SOURCE: when I turn on my

you go in your bios to remove but your bios is probly locked pull the small main board battery out turn it on and off put battery back in its under one of the panel on the bottom..

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