Posted on Sep 27, 2010

Answered by a Fixya Expert

Trustworthy Expert Solutions

At Fixya.com, our trusted experts are meticulously vetted and possess extensive experience in their respective fields. Backed by a community of knowledgeable professionals, our platform ensures that the solutions provided are thoroughly researched and validated.

View Our Top Experts

I just bought a acer aspire 5315 from a yard sale and was told the hard drive was bad. i went and bought a wd scorpio blue 250gb sata hard drive. after installing it i put in my windows xp disk to format it and windows says no hard drive found. when i tryed to go into bios after hitting f 12 it asked for a password and have no idea wheat it is talking about. no passwords came with the new hard drive. is there a was to fix this or reset that password?

1 Answer

Anonymous

Expert 393 Answers
Posted on Oct 14, 2010

Anonymous

Expert

Joined: Dec 27, 2009

Answers

393

Questions

Helped

149606

Points

767

I not sure but ill try to help all bios password user
enter wrong password 3 time if u get a code send me that code ill send u master password if i could not help dont angry let me know ill find another way.. Thanks

Add Your Answer

Upload

Upload an image from your computer

Uploading: 0%

my-video-file.mp4

Complete. Click "Add" to insert your video. Add

Loading...

Include an image. It's worth a thousand words.

prev next

Related Questions:

0helpful

1answer

Lost password on WD Scorpio Blue WD5000BEVT hdd

Password is for the computer, not the hard drive. Get a Linux LiveCD and reformat the drive.

Read full answer

May 05, 2014 • Western Digital WD Scorpio Blue WD1600BEVS...

0helpful

1answer

Looking for a connector for wd scorpio blue WD6400BPVT to move data to jump drive

These kind of "docks" can be found on ebay for drive diagnostics or file transfers without opening your computer.

Read full answer

Feb 09, 2014 • Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD6400BPVT -...

0helpful

1answer

Format wd scorpio blue wd250bevt

IS WINDOWS ON THE DRIVE THEN IT'S NOT POSSIBLE.

Read full answer

Jul 06, 2013 • Western Digital WD Scorpio Blue WD2500BEVT...

0helpful

1answer

Unlock a wd scorpio black 250gb

I would just delete any partitions and format. Hard drives are extremly hard to lock down, especaily after connecting on a differnt machine.

Insert the Window install disc and boot from to do a clean setup, instead of going through Windows.

Read full answer

Dec 31, 2012 • Western Digital 250GB WD Scorpio Black...

0helpful

1answer

We cloned an older 58GB drive to a WD2500BEVT 250GB drive (using Acronis True Image 2011). The WD 250GB drive is now reporting as 58GB to BIOS. I've 0-filled it with different utilities. no...

Good day!!..As far us i know that cloning or ghosting should be the same specs of hard disk..Since you want to cloned the 58gb,so you should be use 58gb also and not 250 gb,thats why bios detecting some different utilities..ok thanks..

Read full answer

Aug 19, 2011 • Western Digital WD Scorpio Blue WD2500BEVT...

0helpful

1answer

Wd scorpio blue 160 gb how to reset

Reset it or format it ? cause there is no reset for hard disks.
Is your hard disk operational ?

Read full answer

Jul 29, 2011 • Western Digital WD Scorpio Blue WD1600BEVS...

0helpful

2answers

I have an Acer 3002LCi laptop. I upgraded the RAM to the maximum 2GB. I also installed a WD Scorpio Blue PATA 250GB HDD. I installed Windows 7 from disk and computer shows drives C and D but drive C...

Install a partition manager program like
http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm
open it and you will see the entire hard disk. In there either create another partition in the unallocated space or add it to the D partition.

Read full answer

Mar 23, 2011 • Western Digital Scorpio Blue 250GB PATA...

0helpful

1answer