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[captiancaveman]

Friend of mine does repair on the side send me these pics laptop Lenovo e530 ThinkPad his co worker ask him to up date the laptop to Windows 10 but he and I have never seen this before and I can't find any information as to get around this could use some information he's coming over tonight so I have time 

[FattyDave]

First image looks to be asking for Disk 1 Password.

 

Drive security password set in BIOS?

[kelvinhall05]

Almost certain it wants a BIOS password. Just try updating to Windows 10 with the Media Creation Tool. Just download it on his computer, and run it.

[ProjectBox153]

It's asking for a password. It seems to be for the disk, but I don't know. 

[captiancaveman]

All right thanks for the quick replys sorry just a meddle man I'll ask and see if he has a disk and give and up date later today 

[Droidbot]

9 minutes ago, L.Lawliet said:

Its  a BIOS password can be for a the disk,bios or user.

Its simple just tear it down,remove the battery and unplug the cmos battery wait about 10 minutes and turn it on

without the cmos battery. The password will be resetted after that plug back the cmos battery and start to put it back together again.

that's not how it works on thinkpads - this is a business laptop, not a consumer machine. 

 

there is NO WAY to unlock it without sending the machine back to Lenovo or replacing the motherboard. 

[PineyCreek]

It's the hard drive lockout password.

 

Here's an info page:

 

https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/ht036206#hd

[Droidbot]

1 minute ago, L.Lawliet said:

That is my first thought before i actually did it myself.

 

At first i just unplug the cmos battery and plug it back again but the password still there.

I unplugged it again and turn it on without the cmos battery but the password still there.

I went online searching for solution but ended up with nothing but to buy the special tools and i didnt buy it of course.

I got pissed and leave it overnight.

In the morning i put it back together like the way it was and turn it on.

Guess what?

The password is gone.

I am not lying..like why would i?

Which machine? It differs. 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, L.Lawliet said:

I dont really remember the exact model since it was like 7 months ago.

But it was thinkpad eXXXX

 

Dont get me wrong i am a bit skeptical myself when attempting to do it since its so obvious that normally u cant just yank the cmos battery and bypass the password i mean wtf kind of security is that?

 

But if the op can do it.

It doesnt hurt to give it a try.

Actually, removing the battery should reset the password. It resets all the BIOS settings.

[Droidbot]

2 minutes ago, L.Lawliet said:

I dont really remember the exact model since it was like 7 months ago.

But it was thinkpad eXXXX

 

Dont get me wrong i am a bit skeptical myself when attempting to do it since its so obvious that normally u cant just yank the cmos battery and bypass the password i mean what in the moist barrel of f*ck kind of security is that?

 

But if the op can do it.

It doesnt hurt to give it a try.

Older Thinkpads had little in the way of protection against BIOS rewrites and CMOS removal, newer units have a bunch of extra stuff, including encrypted BIOS and extra undocumented board features. 

 

For example, the X220 could be BIOS modded, whereas the X230 cannot - it is RSA encrypted with all the new features.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, L.Lawliet said:

.No.. not always i've encountered a Laptop which if u remove the CMOS the password is still there.

Maybe it has some kind of a new security shit or dedicated non volatile memory to store it.

Must be high tech alien shit...

[KuJoe]

12 minutes ago, Factory OC said:

Must be high tech alien shit...

It is a Lenovo so it might just be... 

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, KuJoe said:

It is a Lenovo so it might just be... 

I'm using a Acer so...

I wanted to search "How to kill yourself" as a joke, then I saw this.

I really support the people that are dedicated to this line.

[dantayy]

1 hour ago, Droidbot said:

that's not how it works on thinkpads - this is a business laptop, not a consumer machine. 

 

there is NO WAY to unlock it without sending the machine back to Lenovo or replacing the motherboard. 

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I actually have a ThinkPad T450s and it has a tamper switch that locks down the laptop when you try to remove the cover, removing the CMOS battery might remove the startup password but the supervisor password is very hard to remove on many ThinkPads as they store some passwords on the EEPROM instead of the CMOS