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If it's truely a bios password, you can yank the power, open the machine, remove the battery from the motherboard, and press the power button to completely wipe the bios settings. That usually gets rid of any bios passwords. 
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If it's truely a bios password, you can yank the power, open the machine, remove the battery from the motherboard, and press the power button to completely wipe the bios settings. That usually gets rid of any bios passwords.

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ah yes, thanks for the clarification :)
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I had a case in past where the password was set to RAID controller. To get rid of it I have to update\upgrade controller BIOS.<br />
But still there are drives with pass set on HDD.
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I had a case in past where the password was set to RAID controller. To get rid of it I have to update\upgrade controller BIOS.
But still there are drives with pass set on HDD.

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Just wondering can this be done.<br />
If yes they are only so secure. <br />

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Just wondering can this be done.
If yes they are only so secure. 


Hard drive passwords setup in the bios - to get around this an identical PCB could be swapped?

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