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ChadTower:
Because the person may want to actually use the machine as is rather than just access files on the hard drive. And they can use the windows crack without opening the machine.
myntik1:
If you do live out in the sticks you might want to think about a dog. You can bolt doors and put clamps on things but unless you have enough neighbors around to take notice then everything else is useless. I have the safest neighborhood in America during the summer. Most of the people on my street are teachers. During the summer I have an active street from 7:30am to 10pm, but if I have a day off in the fall or spring my street is like a ghost town. Sorry to hear about the break-in though. It sucks when you work hard for your stuff and someone else is enjoying your labor.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: ahofle on July 30, 2008, 03:34:00 pm ---
Why would anyone need to crack the windows pwds? Just remove the hard drive and put it in an enclosure as an external drive on another computer. Then you can see everything unless you used some form of low level encryption.
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Heh . . . is it just me or is that not considerably more work than simply booting to a disc and clearing the password, particularly if you don't already have a 2.5" enclosure on-hand, which is the case for about 99.999% of the population?
ahofle:
--- Quote from: shmokes on July 30, 2008, 03:50:34 pm ---Heh . . . is it just me or is that not considerably more work than simply booting to a disc and clearing the password, particularly if you don't already have a 2.5" enclosure on-hand, which is the case for about 99.999% of the population?
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That's true, but you implied that a BIOS pwd would make it a "safe assumption" that they would not be able to format the HD in your previous post. Just correcting you. :)
AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: shmokes on July 30, 2008, 10:52:05 am ---Probably not a safe assumption, unless you actually have a BIOS password preventing the system from booting without entering a password. Otherwise, it's safe to assume that they can format the hard drive and install a fresh copy of Windows.
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All you have to do is change a jumper on the mobo to clear a bios password, so there really isn't any simple way to prevent them from formatting your harddrive.
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