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Open it up and remove the CMOS battery for a while then replace it. That will remove a BIOS password. OTOH, if you encrypted the drive...


> if you encrypted the drive...

Yep, LUKS AES-256. I seem to recall someone demonstrating how to crack LUKS for fun, but I can't remember where I found that article, nor enough keywords to find it again. I might just be failing at Google, mind.


Unfortunately this won't work on most modern systems where the password hash is held in nonvolatile memory, rather than a battery-backed volatile store.




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