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    Acer Aspire 5100 Password Recovery

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by cheeze, Mar 4, 2009.

  1. cheeze

    cheeze Newbie

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    I'm looking for some help retrieving the e-recovery password for an Acer Aspire 5100 (BL51).

    I'm trying to use e-recovery to format the laptop and reinstall all the software as new but I've lost the e-recovery password.

    I've tried to access the recovery partition by running ubuntu linux from cd so I can get the password from the file on the hidden partition but I can't find the file.

    I've read that the password is stored in a file called aimdrs.dat and is located on the hidden partition in the tools folder.

    In Ubuntu, I can only see two partions which are Acer and Acer Data but I can't find the file anywhere on there. Tried searching both partitions without any success.

    Can anyone help?
     
    cheeze, Mar 4, 2009
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  2. ATG

    ATG 2x4 Super Moderator

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    Discussions on how to bypass security measures of any kind are not allowed on these boards, refer to the forum rules. Do not bring up this question again. Thank you.

    Thread closed.
     
    ATG, Mar 4, 2009
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