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| 149568 | 2003-06-05 09:38:00 | I am in warkworth, north auck, you can have for free if ya want it mate. ;) | Icarus (3936) | ||
| 149569 | 2003-06-05 09:39:00 | email me with address ptang_ptang_ole @hotmail.com | Icarus (3936) | ||
| 149570 | 2003-06-05 09:55:00 | Don't be so hard on the person who sold it as they probably did not know about that. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 149571 | 2003-06-05 10:07:00 | Here's a long shot. Have you tried booting up directly from a floppy - ie with a floppy inserted when you switch on? If it checks the floppy before it looks at the hard drive, it might work, but if it is HDD-access passworded a la Acer it probably won't. In any case even if you can boot from a floppy you won't necessarily get access to the HDD. Some months ago there was a thread on this forum (in fact I think a couple or more threads) on what to do if you lose your BIOS password. A search on that could prove informative. |
Robin S_ (86) | ||
| 149572 | 2003-06-05 10:13:00 | so far we have discovered that it is NOT a BIOS password and you cant make to system boot from the floppy first. the next step is to test if you can boot th system from the floppy with the hard drive set to none in bios, you still can access the hard drive if you know how to code in assembler. :-) |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 149573 | 2003-06-05 11:35:00 | If however it is, as has been clearly suggested, a security feature in the actual drive firmware (NOT the PC bios, but the firmware of the IDE drive itself) then you will never get access to the drive without the password, as any access to an IDE device has to be via the drive firmware. Only service agents are likely to be able to re-write the drive controller flash ram. Or not. |
godfather (25) | ||
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