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by felixlai

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I have a standard 2.5 inch IDE hard disk in my laptop, all is well until my laptop died recently. Now I need to get the data on the laptop to a desktop. I bought a IDE 2.5 conversion cable, but I set a harddisk password on the drive, how do I get round this problem (I still remember the password, but don't have a spare laptop)

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by bchesmer

If this was just a BIOS password to access the laptop, then just connect the drive & access your data. If it is encrypted (Via the BIOS) then you must contact the laptop manufacture.

by bob the builder

Create folder on your PC and with the 2.5 drive slaved or sec-master boot up with a floppy with ghost on and ghost 2.5 drive to the folder on master disk but do not compress. This way you can get at your files using explorer.

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