boot/user password with new hard disk drive

[kankan]

Hi there,

As the owner of a t42 and t41, I have been suffering recently with lack of room on the 40gb drives. I took the Thinkpad community advice and installed an hatachi travelstar 100gb drive and cloned with acronis. With fingers crossed I re-booted and hey presto it worked like a dream! Thank you all very much. No error codes, astonishing!

However the boot password is gone. Is this the price we pay for not using IBM/Lenovo products? Or is there a way of reinstating the boot password code?

Thank you all once again.

[richk]

If you are talking about the disk password, which is prompted at boot time, it has to be set for each drive. Go to the BIOS under security and set it.

[kankan]

Thank you richk, that works.

Apologies to IBM/Lenovo for my negative thoughts.