Lost Password

Ali

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Dec 20, 2005, 1:53:18 PM12/20/05

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My toshiba portege m100 is locked.... and i cant remember the password. I
have tried resetting the bios but it doesnt help. How can I reset the
password ??

Any help would be appreciated.

Cari

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Dec 20, 2005, 1:56:00 PM12/20/05

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The BIOS is locked or the O/S is locked?
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Smith

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Dec 20, 2005, 1:59:15 PM12/20/05

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http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Decrypting-Decoding/CmosPwd.shtml

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Ali

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Dec 20, 2005, 2:30:47 PM12/20/05

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Its not the CMOS password, but the password that you define in the Toshiba
Utilities program. When you turn on the computer now, and dont give me boot
options or option to go into BIOS only a blank screen, with Password =
?????????

Many thanks.

P.S Do you think replacing the hard Disk might work.
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Henry

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Dec 24, 2005, 3:43:57 PM12/24/05

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Toshiba (authorized service ctr) will help you if you give them serial
number !
Otherwise its assumed to have been stolen.

Henry

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Graham Butcher

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Jan 12, 2006, 7:09:17 AM1/12/06

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When you boot up, press and hold the Esc key and you should then get a
message asking you to press F1 to enter the BIOS. Pressing F1 will then
allow you access to the BIOS and you may be able in here to disable the
laptop from requesting a password on bootup and thus allow you to use it
once again.

Graham

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Lorenzo976

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Jan 30, 2006, 11:39:53 AM1/30/06

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Ali wrote:

In my case it's a toshiba satellite 2450. On it is impossible to boot from
cd because it's impossible to modify the boot options (in example pressing
F12 at startup to choose the device to boot). Then in windows xp, in the
control panel, the toshiba hardware setup program request a password. The
password was forgotten. How can I solve this problem? I want to boot from
cd to reinstall the os. Thanks.

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John Dyer

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Jan 31, 2006, 2:53:11 AM1/31/06

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My Toshiba Tecra M3 is locked, and I can't remember the password, (seems to
be a perennial problem).

Its supposed to be a new security measure to make it impossible to reset the
password, and it certainly is.
I have tried every way known to mankind and still it defies me.

Can anyone explain how/why it works and any possible way around this?

Thanks
John D