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by steve

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I've bought a Dell Latitude laptop that needs a password to access the hard drive. It asks for it just after POST boot and before OS boot (which happens to be Windows 98) The auctioneer said he password was marked under to laptop but that turns out to be the Service Tag. Any ideas how to recover the P/W.

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by nonapeptide

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