750C possible HDD password?

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750C possible HDD password?

#1 Post by Kogey » Fri Dec 28, 2012 3:05 am

I got this beautiful 750C, however when turned on it asks for a password with a cylinder-ish icon (What looks like the HDD icon). If this just has a HDD password without a BIOS one, would I just be able to swap out the drive and install Win 95 on it? Mind you I picked this up for free from some guy cleaning out his basement, he didn't know anything about it.
Thanks.

Also I forgot to add, I don't have a power adaptor for it, I brought it into work and used a Toshiba Qosmio adaptor on it to turn it on.

I just don't wanna find out this beauty is a brick :c

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Re: 750C possible HDD password?

#2 Post by rkawakami » Fri Dec 28, 2012 5:02 pm

Yes, the cylinder icon is noting a hard drive password. You should be able to replace the drive. However, I would first check to see if there's a BIOS password. Assuming that you already haven't encountered a lost date and time, simply press the F1 key at boot and see if you can get to the BIOS menu. If you have already got the lost date warning and are able to enter BIOS to reset it, then there's no BIOS password.
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Re: 750C possible HDD password?

#3 Post by wkw » Mon Jan 07, 2013 8:55 am

HDD passwords can't be cracked. As it is the HDD password, the drive is a paperweight now.

Assuming there is no bios password, putting a new hdd in would solve the problem

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