Re: HardDisk Password recovery.

[xyberpix <xyberpix () xyberpix com>]

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
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