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hiren can't see the hddrive - hubi - 11-13-2014
hello,
computer: laptop ASUS
Bios:Amwrican megatrends
system: Win 8.1
probleme:
system is asking for a password at logon but there's no password at all so it's locked.
i tried Mister Britec solution using Hiren's boot cd and the (password/key) program.
when i booted the laptop with hiren's boot cd and selected mini XP, 2 things happened:
1- on the screen of mini xp the HBCD icone is not displayed, i couldn't get the "browse folder" window of minixp, and it doesn't display the hard drives when i click on "my computer".
so i went into the bios and in the part "SATA" i opened the option that listed the drives and it's says "AHCI"
i pressed "enter" and i had 2 option "AHCI" and "IDE" so i choose "IDE" and reboot the laptop hiren boot cd, and slected mini xp, and then i had the all the icones, the HBCD menu but when i click "my computer" it displays just the harddrive icone without any letter and i still can't access the hard drive because i wanna go into "system32/config/SAM" to deactivate the password. so how can i make minixp of hiren detect and recognize the hardrive.
thanx mister BRITEC cause i have all your tutorials and they are very useful for me but here i am stuck with this bloody pwd locked win8. so i need yur help.
RE: hiren can't see the hddrive - Britec - 11-13-2014
Hi Hubi, Welcome to the forum.
How was you logging in to Windows 8? Signing in with a Microsoft account or Local account?
RE: hiren can't see the hddrive - hubi - 11-14-2014
(11-13-2014, 03:19 PM)Britec Wrote: Hi Hubi, Welcome to the forum.
How was you logging in to Windows 8? Signing in with a Microsoft account or Local account?
i have never used any password at all;
it's strange; i have used minixp it doesn't display the harddrive when i boot with the bios option "AHCI" and when i change the option in the bios into "IDE" i boot with minixp it shows only the hardriveicon with no letter and when i right click on the icon everything is grey i can do nothing but clicking "properties" and when it's done the window is blank. hiren is not accessing the harddrive i think the volume is locked or something.
this morning i have used "rescueCD of linux" i followed your steps as in your video to deactivate the password; the program worked fine; it showed me all the partitions and when i arrived at the users list i saw no "locked" option neither for the administrator nor for the user so i choose the option "clear" the password and when i rebooted in win8.1 it swithched dierctly into repairing and dignosing option then it said "windows can't access the drive"
why is the harddrive locked?
RE: hiren can't see the hddrive - Britec - 11-14-2014
It seems a common issue, changing from AHCI to ATA or IDE seems to unlock the drive, which then lets your do a refresh of the system or system restore