Toshiba 5100 issue

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Anyone?

DukeN wrote:

> Hi
>
> Have the above mentioned notebook, and am trying to fix a pretty
> complicated issue. Friend of mine put some kind of a BIOS password on
> it, and forgot. Now I'm trying to format/run a recovery and when I try
> to change the boot priority it asks me for a password (not actually on
> the screen but on the little sub monitor panel in the front).
>
> I took the HD out, put it into another PC, booted into DOS, formatted
> the drive hoping I could boot into it from DOS but no luck. Copied the
> contents of an MS-DOS floppy disk to the hard drive, put the HD back
> into the notebook, no luck again (it keeps saying invalid system disk,
> please insert system disk and press any key).
>
> Any ideas/suggestions would be welcome. Thanks.