Laptop sata hdd password unlooking

laptop sata hdd password unlooking

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I'm gonna give a serious reply here since I've had some (unfortunate) first hand experience with this...

Last year a doctor at the hospital I work at had his home burglarized. One of the items taken was his laptop. Well, fortune smiled on him and the laptop was recovered in good shape, but when he tried to power it on it notified him that it had a password on the HD. I assumed this would be some little childish password that I would blow right through with my super IT powers. Holy hell was I wrong. After consulting Google, it quickly became apparent that there wasn't going to be any easy way around the password. It's not like you remove the battery and clear the CMOS nor can you pull the drive out and use it in another PC. You have to put in the password. Well, Dell has a master key to get into these things... so I called up Dell. I explained fully the situation and because the laptop was outside of its warranty window, the doctor would have had to pay Dell for this information. Doctors are cheap... VERY cheap... ESPECIALLY when they think it's something they shouldn't have to pay for in the first place. So he refused and the laptop was subsequently replaced.

So here are your options... call your manufacturer and pray that they are cooperative. Assuming you're still covered under a warranty and can prove ownership, they should help you. Barring that go online (just Google for it) and pay some site that offers the master key some money (they'll make you enter some code off the drive to make sure you get the right key) or else just give up and get a new HD.

Those are your options. Good luck!