Acer and other makers reset such passwords all the time. Once in a while folk don't want to pay for the reset and in those cases, it can't be fixed.
Bob
i have a laptop that is password protected in bios and in windows it belonged to my mom before she passed what i wanna know is it possble to take the hard drive from that laptop plug it into my desktop and some how some way find out the password of the computer,, i want to be able to fresh install wndows but unfortunitly the boot menu is not avaible .. i jave ateped to reset the cmos but again dead end as the jumper on the board is missing seems like it was never installled says cmos but then its just a flat contact on the board.. so usb and dvd boot,, is not an option and nither is reseting the cmos is the aser aspire 5630-6317
if u know of anyway of getting that password from the hard drive once pluggedinto my desktop or just another way for me to save this laptop and make it so its not a paper weight id love to here it any help would be t\great
thanks in advance

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