Unlocking The Hard Drive - Gateway NV-53 Service Manual

Unlocking the hard drive

To regain access to your computer if you lose the HDD password, you need to
generate a master password and unlock the hard drive.
To unlock a hard drive:
1
Open the computer in a DOS environment.
2
Type the following command:
A\> unlock6 XXXXX 00
3
Press Enter to display the command options.
4
Select option 2 (
5
Write down the generated master password.
6
Reboot the computer.
7
In the HDD password prompt, type the master password generated in
then press Enter
www.gateway.com
upper case ASCII code
.
), then press Enter .
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