BIOS password

teenee60

I have recently lost my young brother(43) he was a pc whiz,now his laptop a dell latitude D830 o/s xp pro,has loads of photos on and music recordings of himself,to us the important things,amongs other stuff.
it needed a password,his partner tried 3 times with wrong pw, and locked it up.i rang dell ,it wasnt in warrenty,but for £29 they could have given me a password that had a 80% chance of working.my son in law said daylight robbery.he has put all files,photos etc on to external hard drive,(by some cable to his desktop)i said flatten the laptop and put files back on,but he said it cant be saved bios is protected.
so impotantly,the files are saved,but can the laptop be saved???

The_JinJ

Try some of these backdoor passwords - you'll need the BIOS maker (Award etc)

http://www.elfqrin.com/docs/biospw.html
http://www.freelabs.com/~whitis/security/backdoor.html
http://www.dewassoc.com/support/bios/bios_password.htm

The_JinJ

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/CmosPwd

robmar0se

Read up on this URL

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/22800-Master-Password-for-dell-latitude-d830-Unlock-Setup/page3 (5 pages to review)

Or if you're desperate try here...
http://mastermindit.biz/Unlock_Bios_and_HDD.php

Mista_C

If you can track down a copy of the DellBiosBoot CD/Floppy from somewhere it should zip through it like a hot knife through butter. It's basically the software Dell use to retrieve/clear CMOS passwords using the embedded Service Tag number.

bigpound

If you get past that you may have an additional windows password to get past.

leemoss

bigpound wrote: »

If you get past that you may have an additional windows password to get past.

Getting past Windows passwords is usually very easy.

patman99

WindowsNToffline password remover (from UBCD amongst others) works on Win NT/2K/XP/XPPro/Vista/7.

See HERE for a list of downloadable Dell BIOS password reset images

Laz123

I was always told to take out the cmos battery for a few minutes and that would lose any password.

Zandoni

Laz123 wrote: »

I was always told to take out the cmos battery for a few minutes and that would lose any password.

Not too easy with a laptop.

leemoss

Laz123 wrote: »

I was always told to take out the cmos battery for a few minutes and that would lose any password.

Doesn't work on most Dells, they have far more secure BIOS passwords and the hard drive passwords are a right pain to get past.