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Posted by Barry Watzman on April 11, 2005, 4:08 pm
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Based on what we know about hard drive passwords, you are screwed, there
is no way around this situation.
millady@gmail.com wrote:
> I have an Acer Travelmate C100, which is a complete piece of POS, but
> this POS is my computer and I need to be able to get into it.
>
> I have never set a password for the harddrive in the 2 years I've owned
> it.
>
> It was in standby mode, I turned it on and then picked it up while it
> was waking up, but I don't know if I hit something or what, it started
> asking for a password to access the hard drive.
>
> The problem is there is no password. I've tried everything I can think
> of (and a few swear words just for fun). I even put the card with the
> smart chip in thinking that would help. Nada. Tried removing the
> battery, tried resetting the defaults.
>
> I wrote (and left a message with Acer) and expect an answer between now
> and never.
>
> Anybody have any suggestions on how to get rid of this password or
> better yet, what's the backdoor password??
>
> Regards,
> Millady
>
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