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    Forgot Harddisk Password for E725-4520

    Discussion in 'eMachines' started by karkus20, Apr 2, 2010.

  1. karkus20

    karkus20 Newbie

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    I feel so dumb... I was drunk one day and set three passwords for my notebook...

    I remember the first two for the BIOS but I did a completely different password for the harddisk and now I can not remember that one for the life of me.

    I tried every single thought I was having at the time of inebriation and to no avail. So I was thinking that I may have to reset the CMOS jumper or something (keep in mind, I have very little knowledge of notebooks internally)

    Dang, if it were a desktop it would be as simple as that... but like I said, I know very little of how laptops work internally.

    So, I would highly appreciate any suggestions because I already conversed with an emachines rep and they want 100 bucks (!!! :eek: ) so I can ship it to texas for them to remove the password.

    Any suggestions people? :confused:
     
    karkus20, Apr 2, 2010
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  2. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    $100 is cheap for recovering a password, when you think about the time involved, getting a new drive, re-install and a possibility of breaking your notebook when taking it apart.

    Chalk this as a good expensive drunk session :lol: Good luck.

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Jun 6, 2010
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