Hard Drive Password

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And reload your Computer. Boot & Nuke is a reasonable Wiping Utility that will destroy everything on a HDD and it's free.

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Just make sure that you charge your [B]Close Pal[/B] for your wasted time & effort.

If you want to crack the password look above.

Col

is likely not going to happen. Even with expensive tools, it will fail more often than work, and the HDD will self destruct and destroy the data on it.
If he cannot remember the pw that was put on it, you have a new paperweight and you will not recover anything from it (everything is lost).

If this is a stolen system -- ha ha ha!!!