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		| Jason_Culbertson Member
 
  
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				|  Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 4:07 pm    Post subject: F***'n damn it |   |  
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				| man every thing i own is going to hell in a hand basket (Except the trusty T/A) not only is my stereo broke but now my laptop too. i bought the laptop used for $300 and it worked till about a month ago, i went to best buy and asked them what was wrong and i guess its the bios password and my hard drive is nuked. can anyone here fix that? and if so how much for? _________________
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		| lostinconformiti Member
 
  
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				|  Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 4:24 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| get a new hard drive and i might be able to help you out, need more info though what kind of laptop is it and so on... |  | 
	
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		| Jason_Culbertson Member
 
  
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				|  Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 5:23 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| its a 2008 Toshiba Satellite A135-S2256 _________________
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		| aaron_sK Member
 
 
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				|  Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:14 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| BIOS pass is easy. Pull the CMOS battery, or jump it, or just pull the main battery out for a day or two. Had that one on my Toughbook, which is a b***h because it has no jumper or CMOS battery. Damn NATO standards.     
 Is your hardrive physically damaged, or just in need of a format? If it's the latter, I have an old XP wipe disk somewhere...
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		| Jason_Culbertson Member
 
  
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				|  Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 2:52 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| the harddrive is f'ed and needs to be replaced. so if i leave the main batt. out for a day or two it will bypass the bios password? ill try it and tell you if i workewd or not _________________
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		| lostinconformiti Member
 
  
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				|  Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 4:43 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| pull the main battery and then press the power button repeatedly for like 10 minutes (it resets the.... well i forgot what there called but it should work) |  | 
	
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		| Jason_Culbertson Member
 
  
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				|  Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 3:52 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| i did that and it didn't work _________________
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