What other hacks have you had 2 do?
1/ With all PC m/b that I have met you can either use a jumper to reset the password, or 2 remove the battery for 30 mins.
Then you are in. Change the bios to boot from floppy or cd, pop in a live linux cd or linux boot cd. and then everthing that isn't encrypted is available to you.
If they use strong encryption, add keyboard sniffer... free from web!!!
repeat later and find their up to 128 digit PGP passphrase and you have everything.
Really nothing is safe if it is on a PC and you can get physical access to it.
The ultimate that I have had to do.
Remove the HD, stick it in my triple booot pcs
hd2 caddy, and then burn everything to cds or dvds.
I built the PC for "data recovery."
For around ?12 also buy a laptop HD to Desktop PC data cable "bodge piece" and you can recover data from most laptops also.
