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A friend has given me his Acer Aspire One notebook to look at because all of a sudden it is say this this and wont boot - Primary Master Hitachi HTS545016B9Alock

Went into the Bios and reset it but still showing the HDD as password protected?

Any ideas anybody?

Though about resetting the cmos but not use were it is or if it's worth messing around with or not.

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The password actaully encrypts the contents AFAIK. That means, until you get the password, you can't access the contents. Reseting the CMOS will allow you to reformat the drive, but if the password is still set up on the Acer, it will probably cause problems when you stick it back in that machine.

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What can cause the password to activate? as Friend is saying his daughter went to use it one day and it was on there.

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You have to enter it into the BIOS...

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Normally yes I agree but that didn't happen apparently.

So basically as we have no idea what the password is a replacement harddrive is in order.

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A quick Google found a couple of answers:

"The harddrive thinks that it has been removed, so it is locking it. This is to prevent theft. You will have call the manufacturer of the machine and setup a service for the machine. There is no other way to solve this."

"HARD DISK LOCKS
These passwords are not the same as BIOS passwords. Moving a locked hard disk to another machine will not unlock it, since the hard disk password is stored in the hard disk firmware and moves with the hard disk. Also, adding a new (unlocked) hard disk to a locked machine may cause the new hard disk to become locked."

I'd never heard of "hard disk locks" before, but I guess it makes a lot of sense from a security point of view.

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Geiseric wrote:
Normally yes I agree but that didn't happen apparently.

So basically as we have no idea what the password is a replacement harddrive is in order.

:|

"I don't know how that pr0n got there, it just appeared, I swear!"

Not sure I believe the user on this one. :lol:

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Geiseric wrote:
Normally yes I agree but that didn't happen apparently.

So basically as we have no idea what the password is a replacement harddrive is in order.

:|

"I don't know how that pr0n got there, it just appeared, I swear!"

Not sure I believe the user on this one. :lol:


:lol: my thoughts exactly, think I might just give it back and let someone else sort it.

JJ - Yes i read the exact same thing when I googled the problem as like you I'd never heard of HDD lock.

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