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Originally posted by ipab
Well, to be completely honest with you, I've done it on several laptops to this date (damn irritating customers thinking they are clever by changing the windows password along with the bios password). HPs seem to be the ones that have them really easily accessible. As for Toshiba laptops, they tend to have the batteries soldered onto the boards. Not so sure about Dells but at this point, for him, it is worth a shot...

The last attempt would be to take the computer to a repair shop, they tend to have the tools (it's a hardware thing) that they can then use to reset the bios password. If you look online, you might find out how to make it, again, I'm not sure about dells, but it's an avenue worth looking into.

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well he rekons the batteries are under some plastic shit and hard to get out, yeah i under stand the network boot and am on my way to watch the vid, the laptop has been configured to use PXE and i'm thinking i'll need to emulate the settings it already uses... he told me to day when i suggested a 2.5" replacement hdd he said it was actually 1.8" and used a connection which i can't quite remember the name of it but was u"something"...

and to be honest i don't think usb is in the boot sequence, we put a (working) external cd drive in there, it spins up as soon as we power it up then it just spins down

[edit:] after watching the youtube vid, they use vmware server, so i need server? or can i get away with workstation?