It's a hard drive password, not a BIOS password. You can probably get rid of it by mounting the drive in another (non-Dell) machine and doing a low level format.
Of course you would need a cable adapter to plug in the drive to a desktop, those are readily available and fairly inexpensive. Google "cable adapter 2.5". You want the ones that adapt 2.5" to 3.5". Carl -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Lawson Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 2:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Hard: Laptop HD I require some help. I purchased a used laptop, a Dell Inspiron 3800. I was trying to replace the HD in it. Nothing wrong with old HD, just want to go from 6gb to 20gb. I cloned the drive, put in the laptop and it wants a password. If I try and by-pass the password, it shows no HD in the bios settings. As far as I am aware, there is no password assigned to this laptop, but it will be a few days before I can contact the person I purchased it from. I tried to just format the new HD and put it in there and it cam up with the same thing. Any thoughts on what to do with this and how to correct it? Thanks in advance Roger Lawson Florence, SC -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
