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1. #How to format my hard drive dell inspiron pro#
2. #How to format my hard drive dell inspiron password#
3. #How to format my hard drive dell inspiron Pc#
4. #How to format my hard drive dell inspiron license#

#How to format my hard drive dell inspiron license#

Don't know about the Microsoft licensing arrangements on upgrades as I've always relied on fresh installs of Windows with license already paid for that version. You can either buy ready-made external drives (big choice on Amazon) or buy a caddy for < £20 and pop your own HDD inside it. Windows was built to run on internal drives directly via drive controllers on your mobo. It's probably too slow for that purpose, but fine for back-ups. You certainly can use an external drive but for what reason? If you are thinking of using it as an external system drive instead of an internal one I'd forget it. to see if that works? You'd need to do that externally by way of a Repair disk, or the equivalent on a flashdrive, booting from either. NOTE: Hard-drive activity light is supported only on computers shipped with hard drive. Hard-drive activity light Turns on when the computer reads from or writes to the hard drive. NOTE: Press Fn+H to toggle between the battery-status light and hard-drive activity light. How do you know your HDD has crashed? Have you looked in BIOS to see whether your HDD is present or recognised correctly? Have you run a 'Chkdsk /F'. Indicates the battery-charge status or the hard-drive activity. I have a few HDDs 10 years and older and still going strong. Told to do something.Five years is nothing for the life of an HDD. When I get to work I’m not even sure what I’m supposed to be doing. Well I’ve started and am 3 days in and I feel so out of place. I previously posted here about getting offered a Jr net admin position and how nervous I was.

#How to format my hard drive dell inspiron pro#

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#How to format my hard drive dell inspiron password#

In other words, if the user purposely configured a HDD password (in the BIOS) one would hope that they would remember said password.Īdditional logic applied, if this was a "configured" password, why doesn't the DELL master password work?Īll, thank you for taking the time out of your day to help me work through this issue. One HDD does not simply set a password without intervention.Īgreed, however with this statement, if not in the BIOS, where would the user add a password.

You can go one of two mainstream routes.ġ- you contact Dell with the System Info and Service tag and they can help.Ģ- you can use one of the aftermarket services to get this unlocked.Unfortunately #1, didn't help any. Connected the drive as an external, can't read from it.

#How to format my hard drive dell inspiron Pc#

Still not in? You my need to use another pc to copy off the data and format, hopefully not an encrypted HD.I've updated the BIOS, password tied to the HDD. LarsJ wrote:If that does not work try updating the BIOS from a flash drive or DVD. I could set the system password, but it doesn't help any. I found out that since the HDD password is set, I couldn't set the Admin password. I also went into the BIOS to see if I could set the "Admin" or "System" password. Does the screen literally say "HDD Password", or is it possibly a BIOS password prompt?Yep, it reads: Hard-drive #1234561234-2A7B, the system internal HDD-0 is protected by password authentication system.