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November 12th, 2011 13:00
Internal HDD Password Bypass
I have a Precision M2400 with a system and internal HDD password set via the BIOS (version A25). I set the password bypass setting to Reboot & Resume in the hopes that I would be able to wake the system up from standby remotely (using wake on lan). This works halfway--the system password is properly bypassed but it still prompts for the HDD password during both reboots and resumes from standby.
Any ideas?
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bml207
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November 12th, 2011 14:00
You misunderstand my question: I know what the password is and have no desire to remove it. There is a specific setting in the BIOS called password bypass that I enabled for the case when the computer is restarted (warm boot) or resumes from standby. In this case it should (and does) still prompt for the password when the computer is turned off (i.e. shutdown, referred to as a cold boot).
The setting is working fine for the system (BIOS) password and I want the behavior of the internal HDD password to be the same.
Thanks.
ejn63
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November 12th, 2011 14:00
There is no way to bypass a hard drive password that's been lost - there are companies that can remove the password from the drive, but there's no way to do it in the field if the password is lost.
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January 30th, 2012 14:00
I have a Latitude E6500 that used to correcly bypass HDD password check ad soft boot and resume.
BIOS was recently updated to A25 from Dell during a maintenance service.
Since then password bypass does not happen. In Bios the Flag Bypass password during reboot and standby resume is selected, but the Biosscreen explains that this is just for bios password, not for HDD bays.
This doesn't realy make any good: when operating system reboots, (for a patch install or any other reason) the HDD password is requested during reboot.
Since very often the computer was left on unattended just for this purpouse nobody can enter the password. So next morning I find the system turned off and none of scheduled activities could be performed.
Also when I turn it on again, a slow boot happens (a very deep memory test starts beacause of incomplete last boot flag).
I need to revert to previous behaviour: Bypass HDD password when rebooting.