Lost Password for Mindstor

[lovingdigital]

I purchased a refurbished Mindstor storage device, and the first thing it did when I turned it on was ask me for a password that I don't have, and it won't get to any of the menus until a password is input.

Does anyone know how to reset this Password feature when a password is lost?

Please help.
Thanks

[Jud Dagnall]

Yahoo has a forum for digital wallet and mindstor:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thedigitalwallet/

[lovingdigital]

Thanks, but yahoo groups hasn't helped so far.
Was hoping someone had the device would know.

[roine]

Hello

Try:
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=1023

Roine

[lovingdigital]

Thanks, but so far that hasn''t helped either.

[roine]

Hello

I did a serach there, try http://members.cox.net/steved64/mindstor/

He had written how to save a broken DW

He writes:

Passwords:
I mentioned earlier the firmware image area holds the MS/DW password.
On the cdrom there is another program 'pwreset' which can be used to
turn off any password that was installed.



Roine

[lovingdigital]

Thanks, but I checked the cdrom carefully, there is no such software on my version (1.8) of the cdrom.

I am trying to email the host of that website for the program if he has it.

[roine]

Hello

I have the beleving that the program is on the CD he has as an ISO image for downloading.

Roine

[lovingdigital]

Thanks, but I would return the product and try X-drive (idea from other posts) before I would take the Mindstor apart. The x-drive was made for installing your own drives, and you don't have to mess with software or adapters, etc.

I was hoping for better solutions, but considering the company is out of business, I am just going to return the junk--it shouldn't be that difficult to resolve a password being lost. Ohwell.

Thanks for all your help

[mwind13]

Hmmmm...I have a mindstor (bought it 1+ years ago), but i don't recall it ever asking me for a password.