Grayed out hard disk password on a Thinkpad
Every 3 months or so I have what I call password day. This is when all my corporate passwords expire and I need to change them. Despite most of IBM's internal services being authenticate d against our intranet ID and password, I still need to manually change things like OS Passwords (two Windows and one Ubuntu clients), VPN , Boot up and hard disk passwords, Blackberry, Sametime , Activities, FTP and a few others relating to non standard sites and services. Whilst this is quite irritating to have to do, it is a necessary evil and normally quite straight forward. But today I hit a snag I haven't come across before. When I went to change my hard disk password in the BIOS it was grayed out . This was especially annoying because I had changed my power on password successfully . The last thing you want is to have two different passwords on boot up. My initial thought was that it must be something to do with the supervisor password - but it wasn't enabled. Turns out that the p...