Ok, I have a Toshiba laptop I bought of a person I know. It worked great for a couple months and now comes up with a hdd password prompt on the little window in the front of the computer and will not load past the Toshiba start page. I looked up online and they say the hard drive is probably going bad, and that this is a common issue with Toshibas. Sometimes the computer will ask for this hard drive code and if you do not know it you ard screwed. Well, I don't know it. I bought another hard drive but need to find a way to transfer my Windows onto the new hard drive. I do not have disks for the windows proffessional xp version I have on the laptop. I do not want to go out and buy another one. I got the computer to bypass the hdd password once but don't know how I did it. I have another laptop, a Gateway I am on right now. Is there a way to access the hard drive? And once I do, is there a way to transfer my windows to another hard drive?