Comments | kproche: Why to put a hard-drive password on your computers... or a great start to a brand new year

kproche

Why to put a hard-drive password on your computers... or a great start to a brand new year

Jan 02, 2008 16:16

First day back at work after a lovely 10-day holiday, and I discover I've forgotten my Windows logon password, which I'd changed right before the holidays ( Read more... )

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Comments 8

baronlaw January 3 2008, 00:25:08 UTC

Glad you were able to break into your own computer at least.

jbriggs January 3 2008, 00:41:00 UTC

Only one problem. The one time I used one I forgot the hardware password and had to reformat the drive.

lisa_marli January 3 2008, 01:20:15 UTC

As a Pooh of Very Little Brain, I think I'll pass. The programs that need to be are already passworded and encrypted. So even if someone could get to the files, they still get nothing. The rest of it, well that will be a waste of their time. I just don't want to lose the data.

nds_wolf January 3 2008, 02:35:27 UTC

As a tech we have tools that we use to be able to access for many different things.
Mostly recovery cause rebuilding systems SUCK.

buddykat January 3 2008, 04:23:14 UTC

My company doesn't give us any admin privileges, so we're screwed. Happily, almost everything is stored on the server, so it's not a huge deal... just annoying when you can't update a simple plug-in that you NEED to be able to do parts of your job.