Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 15:27:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Drouillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] BIOS password, protecting against thieves ..
BIOS and HDD passwords usefulness depends on the notebook. Many notebook's BIOS passwords CAN'T be reset by pulling the battery; if you forget it either you call the manufacturer to get a one-time-use backdoor password or you send it in for service (IBM actually replaces the motherboard in such cases). I believe HDD passwords are written to a reserved area of the disk or into flash ROM on the controller so they can be extremely difficult to remove or bypass. I've also read such passwords are part of the ATA standard so even machines that don't have the ability to password the disk won't be able to read it. (Do google searches on "lost hdd password" and "lost bios password".) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
