Hard Drive Security - Password in Bios

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I have a fujitsu lifebook that has
password protection for the hard drive in the BIOS.
I am sure this type of security is similar to other laptops.
How secure is such protection?

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very good
<piclistguy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I have a fujitsu lifebook that has
> password protection for the hard drive in the BIOS.
> I am sure this type of security is similar to other laptops.
> How secure is such protection?
>

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piclistguy@yahoo.com wrote:
>I have a fujitsu lifebook that has
>password protection for the hard drive in the BIOS.
>I am sure this type of security is similar to other laptops.
>How secure is such protection?

As far as we know, it's pretty secure, as it's in the hard drive, and
even swapping hard drive control boards doesn't make it functional. I
would consider a laptop hard drive with an unknown password to be
scrap (easier to replace than make functional).

I've got a custom BIOS splash screen, BIOS password, my phone number
in the asset tag, and passwords on both of my hard drives. I'm
reasonably confident that a theif would be unable to access my data,
and that he'd make more money returning it to me for the reward than
he would selling it elsewhere. I'm still somewhat paranoid about
losing it, as replacing it would cost a lot of time and money.