Macbook help - password bypass?

Butters · 21 Mar 2008 at 15:08

My frient dropped his macbook at the airport. The insurance company want to take a look at it but there is very very sensitive data on the hard drive.

It boots, the screen flickers quite a lot. For some reason, his password is no longer working, not the ones he can remember anyway.

Is there an admin account I can use or bypass this somehow?

I have no discs at present.

Alternative I guess is to take the drive out and move the data from it to a PC or other mac?

triggerthat · 21 Mar 2008 at 15:22

I think you need to boot from a OS disk in order to change the password.

Butters · 21 Mar 2008 at 15:33

Ok, how do you remove the drive from a Powerbook G4?

Hate · 21 Mar 2008 at 16:50

Surely the insurance company would have something to say about that.

Butters · 21 Mar 2008 at 16:54

Why? They cant guarantee the data will be kept. Therefore, what other option do I have?

electric ant · 21 Mar 2008 at 16:56

Butters said:
Ok, how do you remove the drive from a Powerbook G4?

If you really want to do this , theres guides here, just pick your mac

http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac/

Hate · 21 Mar 2008 at 16:59

Butters said:
Why? They cant guarantee the data will be kept. Therefore, what other option do I have?

Yeah, but if you mash it with a screwdriver they might refuse to payout

theheyes · 21 Mar 2008 at 19:25

Hang on, is it a MacBook or a PowerBook?

Butters · 21 Mar 2008 at 22:31

Powerbook G4

unknowndomain · 22 Mar 2008 at 00:08

Would help if you'd posted the right thing in the title, a powerbook is not even in the same category as a macbook, let alone the right generation of system.

You can reset the password using the install cd but you will need the cd, if the data is so sensitive it really should be backed up, and I cannot see any reason they would have a problem with removing the disk, but check first.