HDD1/SSD1 password

[oph]

Evening people,

Im normally in the combustion forum by the way

Last year my van was broken into. Long story short, I got all my gear back and finally a toshiba laptop ( Satellite C660/C660D)

I finally got the laptop back as it had to wait to go to court before I was given it back as the lil ****e was saying it was his. Obviously, it wasnt and the police knew this

The little tosser who did my van has put a password lock on the machine so that it wont proceed to boot up to the windows 7 screen.

The software came pre-loaded.

How can I get round this and reset it once again?

Thanks guys

 

[AlanE]

Simple, non tech, way is to use a disk such as this if you are refering to the user account passwords-

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WINDOWS-X...ting_Software_Software_SR&hash=item5891eb1802

Otherwise you need to use program such as Toshiba Assist

 

[Monkeh]

Simple, non tech, way is to use a disk such as this if you are refering to the user account passwords-

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WINDOWS-X...ting_Software_Software_SR&hash=item5891eb1802

Otherwise you need to use program such as Toshiba Assist

That will not help with an HDD password.

How can I get round this and reset it once again?

With great difficulty. There are ways, but they're tricky and require a fair bit of knowledge. A professional data recovery company may be capable of unlocking the disk. For a fee.

 

[mattylad]

Can it be put in another machine to get at it?

 

[Monkeh]

Can it be put in another machine to get at it?

No.

 

[oph]

So would I better off just getting a new hard drive and op system?

 

[Monkeh]

So would I better off just getting a new hard drive and op system?

Likely cheaper than getting a data recovery company (or me.) to unlock it.

You don't need to purchase an OS, only acquire appropriate media. You have a license already.

 

[AlanE]

That will not help with an HDD password.

Woopse misread original post!!

 

[securespark]

Did the court award you any compensation for all this hassle?

 

[TheRunningMan]

Hi OP. Could this not be a boot time password set via the BIOS rather than a Hard Drive password?

 

[Monkeh]

Hi OP. Could this not be a boot time password set via the BIOS rather than a Hard Drive password?

Not if it says HDD password...

 

[TheRunningMan]

Hi OP. Could this not be a boot time password set via the BIOS rather than a Hard Drive password?

Not if it says HDD password...

But the OP never said it says HDD password. He said it had put a lock on the machine which could easily have been set via a BIOS boot time password!

 

[Monkeh]

Hi OP. Could this not be a boot time password set via the BIOS rather than a Hard Drive password?

Not if it says HDD password...

But the OP never said it says HDD password. He said it had put a lock on the machine which could easily have been set via a BIOS boot time password!

Have you considered reading the title of the thread?