From: "Manuel Marques" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: IIci drive trouble Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 16:23:08 -0000
I booted 7.5.1 (the OS which was on the HD) and it started up fine. The problem is that the HD driver is from FWB, and some of the HD partitions (the disk has 6 partitions) are password-protected. I don't know the password, the computer was my father's last Mac, and he also doesn't know the password. So, how can I delete the password-protected partitions without formatting? Is there any way? I can't use Apple's utilities, nor any other utility, and I cannot delete, rename, change the partition!
I'm pretty sure that you must reformat in order to do anything with those partitions, if you do not have the password.
However, the mounting process may be password protected, but I bet the data on them is not encrypted. So, you might be able to use a disk utility such as Norton Utlities to recover the files on the password protected partitions and once that's done you could reformat and repartition and restore, assuming you have somewhere you can store the drive contents while you reformat.
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