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    Lost IBM Rescue and Recovery password?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by pingme, Oct 3, 2006.

  1. pingme

    pingme Notebook Consultant

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    I lost IBM rescue and recovery passowrd (NOT BIOS passwords). Password of the utility that helps taking backups, restoring data and reloading OS

    Anyway to recover or reset password :confused:
     
    pingme, Oct 3, 2006
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  2. Outrigger

    Outrigger SupaStar Reviewer NBR Reviewer

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    yes, if you can answer the security questions that you had set up originally. same thing happened to me, as long as you type word for word the same answers you typed when you first set it up.
     
    Outrigger, Oct 3, 2006
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  3. pingme

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    problem is i did not setup security questions :(
     
    pingme, Oct 3, 2006
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    ringo.cs Newbie

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    Hi,

    I have the same problem as yours now. Have you found any solution to reset this password? Could you show me how ?

    I appreciate it.
     
    ringo.cs, Apr 5, 2008
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    optomos Notebook Evangelist

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    At some time you had to of set the password during setup, you just probably forgot or didn't realize what you were setting up. Anyway, if you uninstall the rescue & recovery from the OS then reboot, 90% of the time it should remove it so you can get in. If that doesn't work then you will have to low level format the HDD and use the recovery media.
     
    optomos, Apr 5, 2008
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