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HD Recovery W/ Drive Password

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System Name Corsair 900D
Processor FX8350
Motherboard Asus Crosshair V
Cooling Corsair H110I
Memory 16GB Corsair Vengeance
Video Card(s) Asus GTX1080
Storage 2x 500GB 1x 1TB WD Green
Display(s) Acer 24" 1080p / HP 27" 1080p LED
Case Corsair 900D
Audio Device(s) Sound Blaster X-Fi (Built in/Mobo) - Xonar Sound Card
Power Supply Enermax 1020Watt
Mouse Logitech Something Whatever
Keyboard Logtich G910
Software Windows 10
Got a problem here, I'm trying to do some data recovery on an HP Laptop, some how the user's 7 year old screwed around with the laptop and setup a Hard Drive password. Does anyone know how to reset it?

I've tried the following so far:

Can't get into BIOS either some how there's no option for me to log in, the HD password seems to prompt first before anything.

External Enclosure's won't read it. Installing it as a secondary drive, it doesn't get detected either..

The only thing I can think of would be to plug in via the PCB board and try a reset there, or better yet a nice little tool that reset's it back to default.
 
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