Locked out of HDD

[NoOp]

On 05/30/2011 08:52 PM, Pritam Baral wrote:
> SOLVED!!!
> 
> Amazingly, the live-iso booted up after all, though after a while of spewing
> nasty error massages, and on different Computer. I got a Dell Inspiron from
> a friend, whose bios supports hdd password. Though my password seemed two
> characters too long to the BIOS. (Wonder why it puts a cap on hdd password,
> when the hdd itself allows!!!) I just booted it off the live-iso(my first
> method actually) and waited till the error messages stopped. It booted fine,
> and then through *hdparm* unlocked and disabled the hdd password. Problem
> SOLVED!!!
> Thanks all.....
> 
> Regards,
> Chhatoi Pritam Baral

Whew! Well done.