Re: HardDisk Password recovery.

[Mike <securitybasics () infinity77 net>]

Okay, at the risk of sounding stupid here...what is a NIOS password 
cracker, I counldn't find anything on google about this. Unless you 
meant BIOS in which case I could see that working for the bios but is 
probably useless for getting past the hard drive password.


xyberpix wrote:

> Another option would be to find a NIOS passwd cracker online, I know
> that there are a load of them available, I've used a couple myself in
> the past.
>
> xyberpix
>
> On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 06:32 -0600, Rob Hughes wrote:
>  
>
> > On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 18:03 -0600, Joseph Forbes wrote:
> >    
> >
> > >  What has happened is that one of the employees of the contract
> > > company I work for has password locked her notebook (Dell Latitude
> > > LS). Story told is that she wanted to make sure if the notebook was to
> > > be stolen or lost no one could get the data off of it. The usual. and
> > > like always, a new password, but not remembering what it was later on.
> > >
> > >      
> > Poke around on ebay and other for sale/auction sites, find the same
> > model drive for cheap, then replace the controller card on your drive
> > with the one from your cheap, unlocked drive. That should at least let
> > you access the data. That should work if the password is stored in the
> > firmware on the controller card. If the password is stored in the boot
> > sector or elsewhere on the physical media, an attempt using specialized
> > data recovery techniques will probably be your only hope.
> >
> > Rob
> >