You can use this plug to remove or clear the BIOS password from older Toshiba laptops. I tested the plug and it successfully cleared the BIOS password from Toshiba Satellite 1415, Satellite 1800 and Satellite Pro 6100. Using the plug you should be able to remove a BIOS password from most Pentium III Toshiba laptops and from some Pentium IV laptops. To make a password removal tool you need a DB25 plug from a parallel printer cable (cable with a plug that you can take apart), a solder gun and 30-40 minutes of your time.
Cut a DB25 connector off an old parallel printer cable and remove screws to disassemble the plug. The wires should be long enough to strip the ends and solder them.
All pins on the connector are marked from 1 to 25 and you should connect and solder together the wires from the following pins:
| 1+5+10 | 2+11 | 3+17 | 4+12 | 6+16 | 7+13 | 8+14 | 9+15 |
On some connectors pins 18 through 25 are already connected. If they are not connected, connect them. Do not connect a wire from pins 18-25 and a ground wire to anything, just insulate it with electrical tape and leave alone.
Carefully fold the wires, put wires inside the DB25 connector and assemble the connector.
How to use the Toshiba BIOS password removal tool: connect the plug to the parallel port on your Toshiba laptop and turn on the laptop. You should bypass the BIOS password and the laptop will boot directly to the operating system.
You can find and purchase the BIOS removal plug here. Before you buy, make sure it works with your Toshiba laptop.
UPDATE for all Toshiba owners:
Some newer Toshiba laptops can start asking for the BIOS password even if the password has never been set. This affects the following models: Satellite A100, A105, A130, A135, A200, A205, L35, M200, M205, P100, P105, P200, P205 and probably some other models.
Before you can use the laptop, the BIOS password has to be cleared.
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June 29th, 2011 at 7:48 am
Hello,
I have not remember BIOS password for Toshiba Satellite Pro (SPM30), modelPSM35E, so kindly advice how to recover the same.
Thanks in advance,
Najeeb
June 19th, 2011 at 6:56 pm
Thanks mate it works!!!
How I wonder if you can give us some thoughts regarding bios passwords for newer laptops with no LPT1 port???
Can we possibly do the “resetting” via the serial port? Im pretty amazed how you did this trick.
Anyway, for people asking how to get your ATA password, there are a lot of utility disks like hiren boot cd that can erase your hard drives’s ata or pata passwords.
(though i had little success with it)
June 10th, 2011 at 10:19 am
It worked on Toshiba Tecra 8200.
May 9th, 2011 at 5:15 pm
pinas Tosh,
If you don’t know the password, you’ll have to replace the hard drive.
You cannot clear the hard drive password.
May 8th, 2011 at 3:26 pm
I have a Toshiba dynabook 2000 DS80P…
It ask me for HDD password
May 5th, 2011 at 8:36 am
It works fine on Toshiba Tecra 8000.
Thanks for this!
March 16th, 2011 at 9:14 pm
Parallel port dongle did the trick, thank you!
March 13th, 2011 at 3:51 pm
Wow!!! Built the interface from a molded printer cord. Took an hour to cut the DB25 away from the cord and get access to the pins. Soldered all those wires on and like magic, I booted this Tecra 9100 that a friend brought to me with that horrible password: prompt. You saved my reputation as a computer guru. Thanks so much for posting this.
FYI: Toshiba will no longer fix this problem. The offer ran out December 31, 2010.
February 14th, 2011 at 11:42 am
Thanks for the information,
Unlocked a toshiba 6100 with it for a friend,
it works like a train boot with the made connector on,
you can’t get in to the bios but the next time you restart
without the connector you wil be directed to the bios.
namaste.
February 13th, 2011 at 1:31 am
toshiba a305-s6916
password bios