Help install Clean Win 10 on locked Thinkpad
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cybershot
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A lot of ran
there will be a hot key that lets you choose a temporary boot device without going into the bios. Usually f12 with Lenovo. Might still be passworded though.
there will be a hot key that lets you choose a temporary boot device without going into the bios. Usually f12 with Lenovo. Might still be passworded though.
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
oh dear!
So you need to get access to another PC, take the disk out and put it into the other machine, preferrably a desktop so it can just be a second drive. Format, install a live boot linux onto the disk and make it bootable. Ensure live boot has grub2, it can see the ISO from Grub2/ISOBoot - Community Help Wiki and reboot and then choose it from the boot menu.
This is fairly technical, the steps are a long way from comprehensive, you're going to have to do some reading but without the p/w to the bios this is about as good as it gets.
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cybershot
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try all the ports. On my Lenovo it only seems to boot off the one.No idea why.
Sunray
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You can dl the win 10 iso from the ms site. Download Windows 10
Grub2 is a bootloader that loads at boot time to boot OS's, if you have put the ISO into the correct location on the disk (see the grub2 doc I linked) it'll let you choose to boot from the Win10 ISO and therefore install windows 10. The interaction with linux will be pretty minimal.
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
There are ways to unlock the BIOS with a hardware tool and flashing modified firmware, but it'll cost you (less than a new main board though).
Service Forum :: View topic - Unlocking all new Thinkpads T440..T495, P53, X1 Extreme, etc
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nick
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Decided that this was too technical for me. Ditto the SSD swap suggestions
Can anyone recommend someone in the Brixton / sarf London area that might be able to successfully take on such a project (for reasonable payment obviously)?
Ability to ignore the redundant "property of Evil Megacorp" splash screen a distinct advantage
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
From that post it sounds like some software and hardware might be needed for this.Decided that this was too technical for me. Ditto the SSD swap suggestions
Can anyone recommend someone in the Brixton / sarf London area that might be able to successfully take on such a project (for reasonable payment obviously)?
Ability to ignore the redundant "property of Evil Megacorp" splash screen a distinct advantage
No idea if they can help but reach out to this lot: The Restart Project - The Right to Repair and Reuse Your Electronics they're brixton based and is where I got my current linux (with optionnal windows 10 install) machine.
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