One of out employees laptop died a couple of weeks ago. We took out the hard drive because we needed to recover data from it but it would not properly initialize when in windows.
We forgot that it has a password that needs to be entered when the laptop was first turned on. This was probably why it was not recognised correctly in Windows and wouldnt initialize.
I put the drive into a desktop machine (Dell optiplex GX620) as its primary drive and it boots and says something on the lines of "please enter password..." I enter the password but it says incorrect. I know for a fact I am entering the correct password because it worked a week ago when the laptop was fine.
Is there something not recognising the password, as its inside a different box? Something to do with firmware maybe or something else that registered the drive to the Toshiba laptop that now not working as its in a Dell desktop?
We forgot that it has a password that needs to be entered when the laptop was first turned on. This was probably why it was not recognised correctly in Windows and wouldnt initialize.
I put the drive into a desktop machine (Dell optiplex GX620) as its primary drive and it boots and says something on the lines of "please enter password..." I enter the password but it says incorrect. I know for a fact I am entering the correct password because it worked a week ago when the laptop was fine.
Is there something not recognising the password, as its inside a different box? Something to do with firmware maybe or something else that registered the drive to the Toshiba laptop that now not working as its in a Dell desktop?