However, this would not be a problem if people did not forget these most established codes. If this is the first time you have encountered such a situation and do not know how to remove the password from the hard drive on a laptop, then this article is designed just for you.
HDD
If you installed the code on internal media and forgot, then you will not even be able to boot the OS installed on your PC. That is, the possibility of using a laptop or computer for its intended purpose will simply be absent. In such a situation, the user can only delete the set password, because otherwise access to the computer cannot be obtained.
Online service
There are several ways to remove the password from the hdd, and one of them is the well-known online service " BIOS Password Removal for Laptops».
To get rid of a forgotten code by using it, you must:
- Enter it incorrectly 3 times (any combination of numbers or letters).
- After that, a special code should appear in the window.
- We copy the received numbers.
- We enter the same combination on the site, at the link above.
A few seconds after entering a combination of numbers in a specially designated line, you will receive a code that will help you reset the password from your drive.
It should be clarified that this program is suitable for all models and manufacturers of hard drives (seagate, hitachi, toshiba, wd, etc.). Moreover, it doesn't matter what operating system is installed on your computer or laptop, because. this service is considered universal.
BIOS
You can remove the password from the hard disk in the BIOS only if the cipher was originally set via bios'e.
All you need is to use the standard option to reset the default settings:
Thus, we reset the password from the HDD.
Second way
The next option is free, specially designed for a variety of hard drive operations.
First, you need to familiarize yourself with the scheme of the password protection of the drive:
- Winchester can have high or maximum protection.
- Using the MHDD application, you can set a custom protection level.
- The master password set by the manufacturer can only be changed.
- The use of a master password makes it possible to unlock the drive only with a high level of protection.
- In the case of the maximum level of protection, the hard drive can only be unlocked if a user code is set.
- If the maximum level of protection is set and there is no user password, then the drive can only be unlocked by destroying all data using the Security Erase Unit ATA command.
Given the above information, in order to remove the password from the hard drive, you should:
Thus, you can extremely quickly remove the previously entered and forgotten cipher.
Third way
The HDD_PW.EXE (18KB) program will also help you remove the password from the hard disk. In order to remove the code with its help, you need to do the following:
- Find out the error code (when loading, press F2 and enter the wrong combination of numbers three times, after which a special code will appear on the screen)
- Launch an MS-DOS application.
- Select the name of the utility in the window that opens.
- After a space, enter the error code that you learned earlier, and add 0 through the space.
- By pressing "Enter", several passwords will appear in front of you, one of which is sure to work.
After entering the code, be sure to change it to a new one and write it down.
When performing these steps on a 64-bit system, you may encounter some difficulties. The system may generate an error due to a utility mismatch. In this situation it is necessary:
- Download DOSBox, install and run.
- Mount drive "C" with the command "mount c c: /".
- Then, at startup, press "F2", again type the wrong cipher 3 times and do the same steps.
To eliminate the possibility of such situations, it is recommended to completely get rid of the cipher by disabling it in the PC settings. If you are in dire need of it, then you should write it down in a notebook or any other place so that you do not have to reset it again.
In the event that you have a Lenovo laptop and the message “enter hdd password” is displayed on the screen at startup, the method discussed in this video will help you:
youtube.com/watch?v=dKLZjrTyTeQ&t=174s
Another it-shnaya riddle about passwords on media.
We have a WD400 hard drive like this:
Playful hands (or evil rock? (-:) set a password on it.
On numerous forums, smart people write what (setting a password) for WesternDigitall storage media sometimes happens due to power outages, incorrect termination of programs like PQmagic or Acronis.
So, there is a task to remove.
A little theory from the help to Victoria:
Management of security options. Passwords, password removal, temporary unlocking.
Theoretical introduction:
Modern hard drives have 2 types of passwords and 2 levels of secrecy. First, let's look at the types of passwords:
- User password: used to restrict access to user information. When setting a User password, the hard drive rejects commands such as read and write. Consequently, information from a password-protected hard drive cannot be read, changed, or erased. This can only be done after removing the password or after temporarily unlocking.
- Master password: NOT designed to protect information. Its purpose is to remove the User-password in case the latter is lost. The master password, being set on the hard drive, will not affect its performance in any way.
- High: high level. The High level password can be removed using the Master password, keeping the information on the hard drive.
- Maximum: maximum level. If the user-password of the Maximum level is set on the hard drive, then it will not be possible to remove it with the Master password (the screw will give an error), and to remove the password, you will have to use Security Erase. This is a special command that will ask you to transfer the Master password to the screw, after which it will erase all information from it, and only after that it will unlock it.
Is it possible to "find" a lost password by brute force? In the case of a hard drive - almost impossible. According to the ATA standard, after FIVE unsuccessful attempts to enter a password, the screw will block commands (in this case, the "Expired" status will appear in the passport). Re-entry is possible only after turning the power on/off. There is no 5 attempts limit if you use the master password wipe to remove the password. In this case, a pause for waiting for readiness (about 1 second) issued by the screw will be a natural obstacle to enumeration.
Practice setting and removing passwords.
There are keys for working with passwords.
PWD : set password to disk;
DISPWD : remove password from disk;
UNLOCK : temporarily unlock the screw (until the power is turned off);
LOCK : temporarily disable the password system (until the power is turned off);
After entering the commands, a menu will appear on the screen with a choice of password options and privacy level. Navigating through the menu is carried out with the arrow keys (up and down), selecting the desired item - with the ENTER key. Next, you will be prompted to enter a password:
Enter password:_
After entering the password, press ENTER. If the screw did not give an error, the password will be set immediately.
It should be borne in mind that master passwords for most hard drives are pre-installed at the factory, and thanks to the Internet, they can be known to a wide range of people. Therefore, it is better to change the master password immediately. The set master password will not affect access to information in any way.
On the contrary, if someone password-protects the hard drive (for example, a malicious program-virus), knowing the master password, you can unlock it.
To remove a user password using a known master password, you need to:
- By pressing F10, select the menu item "master password";
- enter the master password (up to 32 characters). Winchester will be unlocked.
this, having received a passport, make sure that the passwords are removed.
A useful application of the password erase option is to quickly delete all information (for example, before selling the HDD). In addition, security erasure, being by nature a record, has its own
ability to eliminate some types of surface defects and update SMART statistics. In order to perform a quick erase through the security system, you must:
- set any user-password of the Maximum level to the screw;
- set any master password on the screw, for example 1234. Both passwords can be the same;
- by pressing F10, select the master password, then enter it and wait for the operation to complete.
Note:
- If you have already called up the password entry line, but changed your mind about entering it, press ESC.
- To prevent forgetfulness, the program creates a small (32 bytes) text file in the current directory, in which it puts the entered password. The next time you enter the password, the program will read the contents of the file itself and slip it under the user's nose :) This option can be easily disabled, how to do this, read the "Working with the ini-file" section.
- If the tested drive says in the passport that it does not support security options, a message will be displayed on the bottom line of the screen: "Attention: this HDD does not support passwords!" The inscription does not interfere with _trying_ to set / remove the password in order to make sure of this in practice.
After some googling, it was found out that the standard master password for WD hard drives is 32 characters like this: " WDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWD".
Nothing worked at first:
Then, apparently, a miracle happened and we saw the wonderful inscription "Done" after executing the password reset command:
And it looks like URA! ....but after the reboot, the password reappeared and now it can't be removed in any way...
Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
P.S. Acelab PC-3000 and A-FF REPAIR are not offered, since the use of these products is much more expensive than the cost of the hard drive.
Removing the password on the hard drive and BIOS of a laptop is a fairly common problem that users often encounter. There are several ways (utilities) that can help you remove the password. At this point in time, many utilities are popular in solving this problem. To correct this situation, you need to follow certain rules.
You will need
Instruction
HDD_PW.EXE (18KB) to remove the password from the hard drive.
You will need
- - MHDD
Instruction
- Password system of modern drives
ATA password on the hard drive is usually set in two cases:
1. The user himself sets a password and forgets it (perhaps another user, or a child sets it by accident), but the fact remains that someone manually passwords the hard drive in the BIOS of a laptop or computer.
2. The hard drive itself (hdd) or the BIOS of the laptop motherboard sets a password on the storage device due to a system failure (such cases also happened). These failures are usually due to problems with the electrical power of the device.
So don't be surprised if all of a sudden your hard drive gets corrupted: here are two options, see above.
In order to remove the ATA pasword from a Samsung hard drive in 5 minutes, you need to follow a few simple steps, it's not at all difficult, but in order to reset the password, you need a special program to remove it, which works very simply (you can get the program by making a request for it receipt on our website via the link... Upon receipt of the request, I will send you the program to the specified mail or send a link to Yandex or Google cloud where the program will be located.) I can’t put the program in free access, it is very rare and closed, thank you in advance for your understanding.
The program works for all major manufacturers of hard drives:
Samsung, Hitachi, WD, Seagate - personally verified (if you didn’t manage to generate the key the first time, then you may have entered the error code incorrectly, try again the key should consist of 8 characters as in Fig. 4., when entering the code, the layout should be in English, if it didn’t work the first time, try again and again, usually no more than three times you need to carry out this procedure to get the correct key to unlock the hard drive.)
In order to remove/reset the ATA password from the hard drive, see Figure 1, 2, 3. Just turn on the laptop and enter the wrong password 3 times and get the code that is generated by the system.
Next, run the program that I sent you at your request on any other computer and enter the code that you received when you entered the wrong password three times. Fig 4.
The hard drive password reset program generates a reset key. You enter this key instead of a password on your locked hard drive and that's it! The storage device is unlocked, forever 😉 well, or until the next random password.
So let's summarize:
1. We request a program to reset the password on the hard drive.
2. We get the code (we enter the password incorrectly three times)
3. Enter the code into the program and get the unlock key.
4. Enter the received key in the password entry field - PASSWORD IS RESET.
As you can see, the procedure for resetting the password from the hard drive is very simple, you don’t even need to pull out the hard drive, you don’t need to disassemble anything, you don’t need to climb for any batteries (it won’t help anyway). All you need is a special program for resetting hard drive passwords, which you can get from me.
Hi all! Accidentally found a way to reset the BIOS password in a laptop without disassembly. After all, it is very convenient!
How to remove the bios password in a laptop?
All BIOS settings information is stored in a chip on the motherboard, and the battery on the board serves to store the information of this chip when the laptop is turned off from electricity or the battery is dead. And in order to reset this information, you need to disassemble it and pull out the battery or solder where it is soldered. Is it really uncomfortable?
bios password generator
Therefore, I propose another way, without disassembly. I found a special program and translated it into Russian for you to make it convenient to use. and see the field in which you need to enter your code.
You can recover the password from laptops: Acer, Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, Compaq, Insyde H20, Phoenix, Sony Vaio, Samsung. I'm not sure what will work on Asus, but try it.
Procedure
- We turn on the laptop and try to enter the BIOS, usually the F2 key.
The message enter your password appears.
Enter any character set and press enter. An invalid password box will appear.
We type 2 more random numbers and the BIOS will prompt you to enter a password to unlock or continue to boot the system.
We choose to enter the unlock password (Enter Unlock Password).
A password will appear that you need to enter in.
In the service, enter this code and click get password.
Depending on your laptop company, enter the received code in the proposed field.
And press Enter. And we get into the bios.
Now go to the Security tab and remove the password. Press enter against the set supervisor Password field and enter the password that we generated in the service, and do not write anything in the second and third fields, just press enter.
And now we do the same in the Set HDD Password field, remove the password to boot the hard drive.
Everything, the password in the laptop has been removed from the BIOS.