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Greetings one and all.

Last May I upgraded the hard drive; I put the new drive in a caddy in the Ultrabase and cloned the old drive onto the new; easy-peasy.

After some corrupted files/programs I am no longer confident in the new drives integrity and so I bought another drive to replace it. Not wanting to clone a bad drive onto the new one I retrieved the original drive to re-clone it onto the new drive. And that is where everything came to a screeching halt.

Putting the original drive back into the computer and booting it up I was met with the Fingerprint request, after I swiped my finger a box popped asking me to update the password

I put in my original password but it was not accepted; I am told it is wrong.

So instead of using the fingerprint reader I chose instead to just log in using the password; again it is not accepted, again I am told it is wrong.

The first thought might be that the password is indeed wrong, however the 'hint' given shows it isnt and I still use the same password on the cloned drive I am now seeking to replace.

Now what? Is there any way around this?

There is an option to restore the password but it says I must first have a restore password disc; I never heard of it so I never made one; am I correct in assuming that it is too late now?

TIA

I'm not aware of your situation, but why don't you remove the palm rest and disconnect the FPR temporarily (or forever)?
It's only lifting the lever and pulling out the FPR flat cable from underneath.
You can also DISable the FPR in BIOS.
Try it now.

RealBlackStuff wrote:.... why don't you remove the palm rest and disconnect the FPR temporarily (or forever)?

Thank you for your reply.

There is no problem with the FB reader; I can use it without issue on the drive I am trying to replace.

Putting the old drive back in the system I should be able to access it just like I did when it was the one I was using; but I cant; it will not accept the password I have used, and still use on the cloned drive I replaced it with.

Thank you again for your input.