Need to clear password on the drive - Seagate Momentus 5400 ED ST9160821AB - 160GB - 5400rpm - Ultra ATA/100 - IDE/EIDE... 160 GB Hard Drive

with the power off and unplugged disconnect the hard drive for the computer. now reboot and go into the bios and try to clear the password. If it is stall asking for a password with the hard drive disconnected then clear the bios password by the jumper on the motherboard. for the cmos reset. If that does not clear it. remove the button battery and wait 5 minutes and reinsert battery and try again.

you also may have a hdd password if you do then re-post for directions on how to remove hdd passwords. Good Luck.

If she's getting a Windows Welcome screen, then the system is booting and there's no obvious sign of a hard drive password (I've rarely seen these used anyway but they can be removed in some cases.)

1. You'll have to find a Password clear boot CD. There's one by HIRENS that can do it, but I use a simple one found by searching "Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor". You will have to know how do do these things: 1. Change the boot order of your laptop by going into the BIOS setup and make sure the boot order starts with the optical drive (be it DVD or CD) before the internal hard drive. If you cannot change the boot order due to a BIOS password, it can be cleared but you'll need to remove the CMOS clock battery and that requires taking the laptop apart.

2. Download the boot CD ISO and burn it to a physical CD. This is the recommended way to do it.

3. Get that CD you burned into the drive on the laptop and boot it.

Either CD you end up with, it will boot a small version of Linux and then give you the option at some point to clear the Windows user password. If you do not know what you're looking at to find the proper Windows install on your drive, it is suggested you have someone look for it and use the password clear CD to help you accomplish it.

It should conceivably easy to find what you need to change, and you get to see what it finds before you change anything. Ganbatte kudasai!

If you follow this steps guide you through the process of clearing the BIOS password.

1. Turn off the computer.
2. Open the computer case.
3. Swing up the drive assembly and on the motherboard, locate the light green JCMOS1 jumper block. The jumper block is located on the bottom left corner of the dual inline memory modules (DIMM) slots.
4. Place the jumper on pins 2 and 3 for clearing the passwords.
5. Turn on the computer. Wait for an audible beep from the computer. A message appears stating that the NVRAM and password have been cleared.
6. Turn off the computer.
7. Place the jumper back on pins 1 and 2 for normal operation.
8. Return the drive assembly back to its operating position and slide the case into the sleeve.
9. Turn on the computer.

hope that it will helped

Removing the CMOS battery may sometimes clear such password... But if the password is used to protect the hard drive, the easiest means is to replace the hard drive

To clear a Dell laptop bios password with the Dell Master Bios Password visit http://www.unlockbiosrecovery.com/Unlock_Dell_Bios.php or to clear Dell hard drive password use http://www.unlockbiosrecovery.com/Unlock_Dell_HDD.php

- You will get the Master Password that will remove both Admin/System Password.
- Also HardDisk unlocking.
- You don't need any additional tool (no paperclip...)
Bios Password - HDD password - Master password - Unlock laptop - Reset bios password - Bios password removal - Bios Password Recovery - Clearing the Bios or CMOS Password

http://hdd-biospassword.blogspot.com/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcloginnow/
DOWNLOAD PCLOGINNOW FROM THIS LINK
BURN THE ISO IN A CD
BOOT FROM CD
select an account and check 'is password empty' check box
IT WILL clear the PASSWORD for that account

If you have acess to a Hirens boot cd. You can google it and download it. Youll need to set your boot drive as your cdrom drive on your laptop. Your gonna boot from the Hirens cd and select the password clearing option program it provides.look for it...it will clear our windows password allowing you to gain access to your laptop. Try it.

Hard drive passwords are embedded in the firmware of the drive itself. You need to try to find out what the password was.

There is an article about this at this site.

Remove your hard drive.Reboot computer.
While its rebooting press F2 to enter the BIOS
Press Alt-F to restore BIOS defaults
Replace the hard drive

Sometimes your computer vendor ( Dell, HP. etc)
maybe able to reset HDD pwd depending on model