Hi

I tried to boot a Acer Travelmate 650 into the Fujitsu hard drive dianostic tool and it froze. Thinking that i chose optimal instead of defensive etc i rebooted but am now prompted with a enter password prompt which I cannot get by.

Can i suggest that this be noted as an issue to prevent future problems with this component of the UBCD.

edit: when showed password screen turned laptop off and now shows blank screen on startup ??? can anyone help

edit: ok the pasword screen is showing again after the removal of ram.....

any ideas for passwords to try

Thx guys

It seems like your HDD is locked with a password?

There is a tool called "ATA Password Tool" on UBCD that might help you.

thank you for the reply though unfortunately the password comes up before the computer can boot of a cd or anything for that matter

From what I have read from NET searches
apparantly i have to take the cmos battery out and if that doesnt work find the pins that i have to short to get the bios reset but i have no idea where those are on this model (Acer Travelmate 650)

kewl topic guys :)

Boot your CD....

THEN plug in the HDD!