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by mark110a

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I have a compaq armada 1700 laptop
in the bios (software controlled) there is a security area for locking the hard drive called
Drive Lock I wish to remove this I know the user password but in order to remove you need a manager password which I have lost.
How do you remove it and how dose it work

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by richard_barsby

Hi the simple way is to replaced the hard Drive even if you put the HDD into another unit I believe it will not work as the password is stored in the HDD but cannot be cleared with Fdisk or any other 3rd party partition manager.

Rich

by mark110a

i'm looking for a low level answer i know the password is stored on the hard drive on the drive or its bios
I need to know how to clear it

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