hello I have bought a second hand hard drive 10 gig from a car boot sale the only problem is that it has got a password and user name, it boots up ok windows loads up but it then asks me for the password and user name can you help me ? operating system is win 98 I do not know much about computers if you can help me it will save me the 25 quid I paid for it thanks.
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I've never heard of a Hard Drive being password protected through the OS It must have been done through an 3rd party software I think you may be out of luck, unless you can find a repair center that may be able to recover the data on the drive
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Posted by linda of Katharine Gibbs School - New York on February 10, 2003
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