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04-18-2024 04:25 AM
I work in a high school, but we also do some helping out at the special school next door for autistic children, one of them has managed to some how put a hard drive password on one of their 30 laptops, i thought i would just be a case of taking it apart and removing the biso jumper like on a pc, and then removing it.
It does not matter about whats on it they are all imaged and save on the schools server, even i can just wipe to reinstall the schools image. how do i get rid of the hard drive password?
Wes
04-18-2024 02:53 PM
If you're asking how to remove the drive password but keep the data intact, without knowing the password, there is no way to do this. If there was, there would be no point in having drive passwords.
You said the data does not matter, so use a Secure Erase app to WIPE the drive and then reimage it.
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04-22-2024 10:39 AM
There is no way around the drive password as long as you have it connected to the laptop. And as I said, there is no way to reset it without wiping the data. If there was, there would be no value in setting drive passwords.
To WIPE it, you need to remove the drive, connect it to a working PC and run a Secure Erase program. The one I recommend is MiniTool Partition Wizard, for which there is a free version. It will take HOURS to do the wiping.
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