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Re: password on the hard drive



At 03:56 PM 7/7/96 -0400, Randip Singh wrote:
>Robert Dewar wrote:
>> 
>> "I have a thinkpad 750Cs. I added a 1M hard-drive on to it.
>>  the problem is that I had a password for the hard drive which
>>  I dont remember. I have been told that the hard drive is now
>>  useless. IS there some way I can remove the password and reclaim the
>>  hard drive ? Has anybody had sucess with this ?"
>> 
>> One would certainly hope that the drive is useless if you have 
>> forgotten the password, otherwise what use is a password?
> 
> Point taken. However there is a power on password 
> and IBM support/service can fix that. I am hoping that there is 
> way to fix the hard drive password problem too rather than trash 
> the hard drive.

The way they "fix" this is to replace the motherboard!

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