Al Hartman wrote:
I bought a thinkpad 600e for a friend several years
ago on eBay. She put it in storage for a year, and when she pulled it out the backup
battery has died. I replaced it, but now the unit is asking for a password.
We never set a CMOS password, the eBay seller's email no longer works and I need to
get to her data on the HDD which is also locked.
Everything I searched tells how to wipe the HDD, but not how to recover the data without
shipping the drive to someone who will do it for much more than the laptop and drive is
worth.
Anyone have a way I can get into the unit and unlock it?
I can buy another unit cheap, but that doesn't get me into the HD.
I don't believe that it is possible. When a hard drive password for a
ThinkPad gets lost, it usually means buy a new hard drive and send the
old for recovery.
Peace... Sridhar