can someone please help me my wife's friends son gave me his laptop to fix but i am stumped on what to do every time he powers it on it is asking for a password but he has no idea what it is now i know it is a bios password, so i remember that if you take the bios battery out for ten minutes it resets it but i tried and the battery is soldered to the board. so if someone could help it would be great. Laptop is a Toshiba satellite L300 Model number PSLB8E-03E007EN
Before I opened your thread my suggestion was going to be remove the CMOS battery. Otherwise I'd suggest you Google for more info, eg. http://www.tech-faq.com/reset-bios-password.html
thanks i managed to get pass the bios password by jumping the cmos (i think that's what it was called) but i have hit another problem hdd password is there a way round this without paying a company to do it i have been searching for the past two days on Google but no joy please help thanks.
most likely is a windows password not a hard drive password then. why not reload windows from recovery partition if not have disks?
Does your logon screen look something like this? http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/Bypass-the-Windows-Vista-Logon-Screen-2.png/ http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bypass-the-Windows-Vista-Logon-Screen-51806.shtml
dosent look like any big man i just took the hard drive out of another toshiba and tried it in that one and it comes up the same message (please enter built in hdd user password) does this mean the hard drive is fucked or can it be fixed
Haven't watched this, might be crap, btu it looks like a Toshiba bug http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2OFUsEBLHU Google is your friend.
Okay, my bad. In which case, read this: http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/TSB6B01MC000CR01.htm I should imagine putting a new HDD in the laptop would work fine, if my understanding of this (pretty ridiculous) security feature is correct. Edit: Presumably you've looked through the BIOS menu to see if there any any options relating to the HDD password?
