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    HDD password delete on Toshiba Tecra A8 series

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    by anetsurfer ·

    Need help
    I have Toshiba Tecra A8 laptop.
    I registered a boot (BIOS) and HDD passowrd using ‘Security assist’. Both passwords were same.
    I deleted my BIOS/Boot password but unable to delete HDD password. So since then I need to enter HDD password on boot.
    I want to remove it but do not know how to do it.

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    • #2510251

      Clarifications

      by anetsurfer ·

      In reply to HDD password delete on Toshiba Tecra A8 series

      Clarifications

    • #2525098

      Here is how

      by ralminov ·

      In reply to HDD password delete on Toshiba Tecra A8 series

      Shutdown Tecra A8
      Press ESC and Power button together
      Enter the passwords if prompted
      Press F1 to enter the BIOS

      Select the password field (it shows Registered)
      enter bkspc or space
      enter your existing password
      press enter
      It prompts for New password
      Just enter
      Repeat for verify
      Now password is Unregistered

      Can be repeated for any password field
      Hope this helps

      • #2530855

        I could delete my HDD password, problem is resolved. Thank you very much.

        by anetsurfer ·

        In reply to Here is how

        This is how one gets stuck. I actually had tried almost same thing up tp backspace. and then never tried to put in my existing password. So that ‘REGISTERED’ thing used to come back when I quit.
        So I followed what you wrote and it worked.
        Thanks again.

        • #2762044

          Worked nice

          by bures ·

          In reply to I could delete my HDD password, problem is resolved. Thank you very much.

          As anetsurfer posted – worked nice, but there’s a question for Toshiba – is it really so important have such an idiot way to enter bios and/or change password? Other manufacturers have much more polite ways how to do this – so boys like me doesn’t need to check such advices (don’t bohter others with these usually easy things)

          Regards,

          Joe

        • #2762035

          re: is it really so important have such an idiot way to enter bios….

          by thumbsup2 ·

          In reply to Worked nice

          Yes, and it is going to get worse. The manufacturers are beginning to implement more secure ways to enter the BIOS because ‘boys like you’ seem to be able to steal laptops and access them without much trouble.

        • #3006730

          Thanks

          by andybock1 ·

          In reply to re: is it really so important have such an idiot way to enter bios….

          Thank you so much for this step-by-step instruction.

          This password entry also had me stumped and now I was able to delete it.

          Cheers

    • #2831534

      USE HIREN BOOT CD

      by jital1984 ·

      In reply to HDD password delete on Toshiba Tecra A8 series

      use hiren boot cd. can download from freshwap & rapidshare

      • #3028648

        Hiren’s won’t circumvent a BIOS encryption

        by ddmcp2000 ·

        In reply to USE HIREN BOOT CD

        A powerful tool, to be sure, but the HDD password in the Tecra is a hardware encryption, and even if you remove the drive from the laptop in it’s encrypted state, no OS will even know the drive is there. Not Windows, not Linux… NONE. Once locked, ONLY THE BIOS THAT LOCKED IT can re-access that HDD.

        Try again to be helpful, when you understand what you are trying to be helpful FOR.

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