I have a laptop computer that my son placed a password on the hard drive and forgot the password. You enter the password in the Bios and I cleared the Cmos and the password is still there. The password is on the drive and will not boot. Without the password the computer acts like the drive is missing. I tried formating and fdisk and both failed, stating the drive is write/read protected. Can anyone tell me a way to remove the password or format the drive.