Locked out of HDD

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 20:52 -0700, Pritam Baral wrote:
> SOLVED!!!
> 
> 
> Amazingly, the live-iso booted up after all, though after a while of
> spewing nasty error massages, and on different Computer. I got a Dell
> Inspiron from a friend, whose bios supports hdd password. Though my
> password seemed two characters too long to the BIOS. (Wonder why it
> puts a cap on hdd password, when the hdd itself allows!!!) I just
> booted it off the live-iso(my first method actually) and waited till
> the error messages stopped. It booted fine, and then
> through hdparm unlocked and disabled the hdd password. Problem
> SOLVED!!! 
> Thanks all.....

We can breathe a collective sigh of relief. I thought surely you were
going to be hosed. I'm glad you got it fixed! Ric



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