bios password

[fingers]

i have a toshiba L350 on the bench. with bios password set and the customer as forgot it. as anyone had this problem before it seems to have a password set for HDD as well. i have never seen that before.

 

[bitznpcz]

i have a toshiba L350 on the bench. with bios password set and the customer as forgot it. as anyone had this problem before it seems to have a password set for HDD as well. i have never seen that before.

Are you sure this is their laptop and not stolen??

This works on a lot of Toshiba's:

Power unit off. Disconnect AC power. Remove battery. Remove the memory cover screw, memory cover and the memory modules. Peel back mylar from JOPEN1 solder pad. Short JOPEN1 solder pads for 30 seconds. Replace mylar. Replace memory modules. Replace battery. Power up unit. If all is well, replace memory cover and screw.

You can also simply take the unit apart and remove the cmos battery from the motherboard.

If this doesn't work and it is definately their laptop and they did not set a bios password. Toshiba have extended the warranty on certain models as this is a Bios fault. See http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/...sp?ofId=AskIris&searchString=98082321&x=7&y=5

 

[mike_tech]

i have a toshiba L350 on the bench. with bios password set and the customer as forgot it. as anyone had this problem before it seems to have a password set for HDD as well. i have never seen that before.

I agree with Bitznpcz, the Laptop is most probably stolen; either that or it’s a secondhand, passed down the family laptop. That’s the most common reason for a bio's password and a hard drive password.

If you believe the laptop is co-sure then please keep reading, otherwise i would walk away from the job, its really not worth the trouble.

The problem is although these are good anti theft measures put in place; these really don’t help the innocent party.

To remove the bios password, reset the jumps on the motherboard or remove the cmo's battery as bitznpcz said. Or you can use the utilities on the UBCD4WIN cd.

Your biggest problem is the HDD password, if you don’t know it, you really are screwed! The computer will start but will always ask for the HDD password and there is no way to bypass this. Sure there are other ways, but they are time consuming and expensive!

So you have a couple of choices to make,

1) Backup all the clients’ data and replace the hard drive. (Best option IMO)

2) Contact the manufactor of the laptop, as they provide services for this reason, I know that Dell does.

3) Purchase some software to clear the password I recommend using either

HDD Unlock: - but all the data will be erased on the drive being unlocked!

The price is depending on the size of the drive. 40GB is $4.97 for example.

or if you want to unlock the drive with the data untouched then use

A-FF repair station

It costs $49.95 for a 1 recovery License.

As I said its you choice, Hope this helps.

 

[Kenhelms]

I had this happen one time. Make sureyou have everything documented. In Multiple places. Then do it again.

About 6 months later, I had to provide all that info....because the laptop had Lojack on it.

 

[Doctor Micro]

sounds fishy to me. I can perhaps understand a customer setting, then forgetting a BIOS password, but a hard drive password? Highly suspicious.

 

[Winston_Smith]

You could try some of these bois passwords.

For Award BIOS’ try these backdoor passwords:

AWARD_SW
j262
HLT
SER
SKY_FOX
BIOSTAR
ALFAROME
Lkwpeter
j256
AWARD?SW
LKWPETER
syxz
ALLy
589589
589721
awkward
CONCAT
d8on
CONDO
j64
szyx


For AMI BIOS’ try these backdoor passwords:

AMI
BIOS
PASSWORD
HEWITT RAND
AMI?SW
AMI_SW
LKWPETER
A.M.I.
CONDO


For PHOENIX BIOS’ try this backdoor password:

phoenix

Also HDD passwords are easy in some cases also. You have the user set password, and a master password this one's for the fbi and whatnot. But with some searching you can find the master password. The latest issue of 2600 has an article on this, I'd reproduce it here but I seem to have misplaced my copy.

Edit
Western Digital master pass is something like WCWDCWDCWDC
You'll also need atapwd to reset the password

 

[AtYourService]

check out my site
http://www.whatsmypass.com/toshiba-laptop-bios-recovery

 

[fingers]

bios

thanks all your help. customer found bios password after i pushed him into looking harder for it. he can not remember setting hdd password. he told me he had all his photo's backed up on pendrive. so i have changed the hdd.

 

[K007]

what if you do it and when you turn it on shows up as being some company laptop... i.e. stolen.

Who is going to give you the money for your work? Will you accept the money from the guy using a stolen laptop?

I would just tell the customer I cannot do it. Go somehwere else.

 

[Davis Computer Services]

After coming up with the BIOS password I would be pretty comfortable that the laptop is in fact his. I wouldn't have to many reservations about working on it at this point.

Not knowing the HDD password is still a little fishy, however.