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by demoines

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I have a toshiba lap top that my son was playing with he set the hdd password on it and can not rember what it is is there any way to get around this password or reset it

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by older mycroft

If the hard drive was removed and slaved to another computer it would only trash the entire contents of the drive, but retain it's password so you'd lose even the chance of getting it back where it presently resides.

Unless your son remembers the password, the drive is trashed and your operating system and files are gone forever.

by oh smeg

Authorized Toshiba Repair Agent and they will be able to fix this for you even if it means changing the HDD.

Next time don't let people mess with the unit as they can cause expensive problems that may not be possible to fix easily even with lots of money available.

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