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harddrive locked with password I never assigned

  1. 11 Oct 2009 #1


    Judy Antunano Guest

    harddrive locked with password I never assigned

    I have a dell computer.I assigned a administrative password but didn't assign a harddrive password,Well my computer started acting strange and NOW its stating the hard drive is locked until
    I unlock with password.I NEVER assigned it one.Anyone have any ideas?How to override it or something?Thanks





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  2. 14 Oct 2009 #2


    David B. Guest

    Re: harddrive locked with password I never assigned

    What is the exact message that your getting?

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    "Judy Antunano" wrote in message news:200910116263pinky641@newsgroup

    >I have a dell computer.I assigned a administrative password but didn't
    >assign a harddrive password,Well my computer started acting strange and NOW
    >its stating the hard drive is locked until
    > I unlock with password.I NEVER assigned it one.Anyone have any ideas?How
    > to override it or something?Thanks
    >
    >
    >
    > EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice
    > Book Review: Essential C# 2.0 [AW]
    > http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials...sential-c.aspx

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