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by WalterBright 1032 days ago
Why would anyone need bolt cutters to extract the drives? I have a couple Win98 PCs in the basement, and you just unscrew the drives. The password on it didn't encrypt the drives, either.

As for the password, this is the old days. Could probably google how to crack the password for it. Or just try the classic 123456, querty, password, or letmein.
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mikestew 1032 days ago
Why would anyone need bolt cutters to extract the drives?

I've had PC cases that had eyelets for a lock. You'd have to get through that before "unscrew(ing) the drives".

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WalterBright 1032 days ago
The drives aren't password protected. Why would one need to take the drives apart? Besides, the text was about extracting the drives, i.e. taking them out of the computer box.
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FetusP 1031 days ago
Maybe to access the drive, they have to go through a lockable case. If someone lost the keys to that case, they might have had to pop the locks with a bolt cutter
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mikestew 1031 days ago
That was exactly what I was driving at, thanks. In order to take the drives "out of the computer box", one needs to get through the lock on that computer box first.
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