I have a Dell Inspiron 600m and whenever I boot it up, I get the white error screen telling me I have a locked hard-drive password. I never set up a password though, does anybody know what password I could use to unlock the hard-drive? The error message says "hard-disk #***********-595B is protected by a password authentication system." I saw on here that someone else had the same problem and someone was able to give him the password he needed. My service tag is FPL8N61 if that helps!
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I have the very same problem, I noticed it today, and my warranty is expired with dell so I can't even ask them to help. I thought perhaps the hard drive became a tad bit disconnected, and the white screen was something that only the people assembling and inserting the hard drive at the factory could take care of. I cannot see any passwords on the computer at all, not even around the hard drive. Grr.
forgotten administrator password :(
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It has been a long time that I have had to use my administrator password and now I have forgotten it as a result I can not update anything download nothing and can't even defrag or do an disk clean up does anyone know if there is a universal password LOL! or something I can do to fix this problem, I sure hope so I have tried everything I and other people has told me to try and nothing works PLEASE HELP!
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Only way to handle this proble is to call Dell Tech Support and get the password from them. They have them all in their dada base. Each code is unique to your laptop. They'll ask you to read them your service tag, then they'll look it up. Trust me, it's faster to do it this way. If your PC does not have a service tag...Then you're screwed.
My laptop says i have to reset my internal hard disk
How To Erase Dell Inspiron Hard-drive Password
Ok so the laptop is really my sisters..She has been trying to get her laptop to work bt it doesnt...When she finally got it to ree-start it says that there is not a hard disk found, that she should try to reset the hard disk and then it gives her alot of giberish. Anyone know how she can reset her internal hard disk?? she has a dell laptop bt I'm not sure which model
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I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop which I recently bought from its previous owner. I cant seem to get pass the authentication password (white screen). I have tried many suggestions but still seem to fail. Can someone help me wit this problem?
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It is bit tricky to reset to factory default a Dell Inspiron 6400, Ctrl+F11 or F10 do not work as hot keys, so If you do not have restore disks you can follow the instructions using recovery partition
here how I twist it, condition is that you must have recovery partition as default factory, which most of 6400 have.
1. Make bootable CD which contains Norton Ghost or other disk image software
2. Boot your system using bootable CD with Norton Ghost software, u can use Hiren's CD ISO image. If u don't know about hiren just google it.
2. Once you boot up , open Norton Ghost click LOCAL-> PARTITION->FROM IMAGE
3. Now "look in" for "[DellRestore]FAT drive" and select this drive (this is recovery partition)
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