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Judy taylor Posted on Jul 22, 2014

D525 hdd password forgotten---frozen

Bootup looking for hdd password. Went to bios changed boot order wasnt happy. Set supervisor password didnt override. Pulled external batt overnight. Nope. Took back and all apart couldnt find jumper for eprom. Couldnt find cmos. Took hd out into sata external enclosure and usbed to working comp. not recognized. Havent tried booting from floppy without hd in but that wont unlock hd. My guess is virus put extra partion, password protected it and locked it. Could possibly use fdisk after openining. Really appreciate the help.

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sriramoju

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  • Posted on Mar 27, 2008

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first do one think remove the battery and start the system after getting on press f1or f2 or f12 or del button to enter into the bios screen after coming bios screen set the system to default settings and save and exit the system its restart check its working or not, still same problem remove harddisk and boot from cd -rom it will go for some installation , if it not goes motherboard if it goes harddisk problem

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Mar 23, 2009

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Man, I have the same, on different laptop. It's very hard to remove bios main pass. If you have your motherboard sheme you can shortcircuit correct pins in bios chip, use google to find what ones for your mb. There is method with paraller port too. You must search, I cant help you more.

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Joseph Vernice

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  • Posted on Jul 28, 2009

SOURCE: Acer Aspire One has Hard drive Password frozen

There should not be a password set in the BIOS unless you set it up with one. You can clear the BIOS to BRAND NEW state. Acer can guide you through this if it is under warranty. If it is not, write back and I will help you do this.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jan 26, 2010

SOURCE: How to crack /unlock the password set on SATA HDD port 0 in CMOS on Acer Aspire-5050

Cheap solution available at http://www.acersnoop.co.cc

Kiran Anto

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  • Posted on Sep 17, 2010

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Just go to here

Enter your model and hash code and they email back your bios master password for your Laptop/computer.

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if you download the sata drivers from the toshiba website for your specific laptop and then extract them and get nlite ( www.nliteos.com and slipstream the drivers into the xp disc you can then re install xp and it should allow you to boot.

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Hdd password frozen on laptop

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
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