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> This is stated in the hardware service manual, but I find it hard to believe.
> I would imagine if you poked around with a hard-disk editor like the Norton
> Commander, you would find the password on track 0.
>
> It _is_ possible that they encrypted the password, but considering the amount
> of effort they put into the boot password, I consider that to be unlikely.
>
The password is NOT implemented by the bios in a reserved sector. There
is an IDE command for the password. Thus I don't think that you really
want to deal with the problem. Now if you are the NSA....
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