- Nov 30, 2012
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In the DR Congo. Someone contributed an old Dell 110L and sent it here. They included the hard drive password but not the BIOS lock password. Since I can't unlock the drive in the BIOS I'm rather stuck here.
Getting the BIOS password is proving futile so here's the query. I want to install Linux as this computer had XP on it and viruses are a huge problem here. To install Linux on this particular machine (I'm very well versed in installing Linux, done it probably on 500 machines) I need to use another computer to install onto the hard drive but even though I know the password for the drive it won't load read and write as an external. It's a Hitachi drive and I've tried a variety of wipes but none get the password requirement turned off. Any idea of a wipe that can do this?
Getting the BIOS password is proving futile so here's the query. I want to install Linux as this computer had XP on it and viruses are a huge problem here. To install Linux on this particular machine (I'm very well versed in installing Linux, done it probably on 500 machines) I need to use another computer to install onto the hard drive but even though I know the password for the drive it won't load read and write as an external. It's a Hitachi drive and I've tried a variety of wipes but none get the password requirement turned off. Any idea of a wipe that can do this?
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