Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:25:57 -0700 (MST) From: Michael Kopplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] BIOS Password recovery, dongle?
> No there was a special 3.5" disk you had to change 4 or 5 bytes in sector 1 > or sector 0 it depends on the disk editor that you where using. As I recall, A past message points to this page, http://www.expage.com/toshibabios and I'll include the text below so that it gets archived. Mike Toshiba Notebook Bios Backdoor UPDATED I first read about this backdoor at the following site http://www.expage.com/page/toshibapassword but noticed the author said the hex values should be entered in sector 2. In reality, the boot sector is refered to as sector 0 not 1, so enter the value into sector 1 and this backdoor will save you hours of frustration!!! The one and only way to bypass the Power On BIOS password of a Toshiba Notebook. This method works on all models. This is what you need: 1. Your notebook 2. An empty formatted diskette (720 kb or 1,44 mb) 3. A second computer (e.g. a DOS desktop PC) 4. A hex-editor (e.g. Norton DiskEdit or HexWorks) This is what you have to do: 1. Start the desktop PC and start the hex-editor 2. Put the disk in drive A: 3. Change the first five bytes of sector 1 (boot sector is sector 0) to: 4B 45 59 00 00 4. Save it! Now you have a KEYDISK 5. Remove the disk from drive A: 6. Put the disk in the notebook drive 7. Start the notebook in Boot Mode (push the reset button) 8. Press Enter when asked for Password: 9. You will be asked to Set Password again. Press Y and Enter. 10. You now see the BIOS configuration where you can set a new password. And that's all! ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
