enter HDD/SSD password ...?

[rockdarte]

Hello! so I've got a Toshiba Satellite L855D for almost a year now and recently uptdated from linux mint 14 to 15, but I didn't backup my data correctly. I ran testdisk to start a file recovery but when it finished running the computer rebooted and from then on it's been asking me for a pasword for the hard disk (Enter HDD/SSD password).

so..... what does this means? i didn't put any password

 

[COLGeek]

Are you sure you aren't being asked for your user password?

 

[rockdarte]

Are you sure you aren't being asked for your user password?

yep, pretty sure. It gets all black and opens a blue (BIOS like) window asking for such password just like this:

 

[Tom Tancredi]

Yeah in your BIOS you somehow entered a PW on the drive or that is someone else drive put in there that is encrypted (sure you didn't enable Linux encryption or something?).

 

[COLGeek]

Yeah in your BIOS you somehow entered a PW on the drive or that is someone else drive put in there that is encrypted (sure you didn't enable Linux encryption or something?).

Agreed. This was set by someone.

Discussions on how to bypass security measures are not allowed on Tom's Forums. We have no means to verify that the OP is the rightful owner or authorized access to the system in question.

 

[rockdarte]

So I took out the hard drive and put in the Linux boot CD and it runs normally, even the BIOS runs normally.... so it definitely is the hard disk :s

 

[rockdarte]

Agreed. This was set by someone.

Discussions on how to bypass security measures are not allowed on Tom's Forums. We have no means to verify that the OP is the rightful owner or authorized access to the system in question.

Oh, didn't know that sorry. I can assure you I'm the owner, but I'll get in touch with a Toshiba help desk.

Thank you anyway.