Restrictive Environment From School

[Rickertsen2]

Originally Posted by Athena

Well I go to the same school as nukem. We do not have access to the BIOS. So a boot disk wont work without other methods.
Thanks

This is the kind of thing that my team would not tolerate. It seems to me a total waste of $$ to buy each student laptops with such restrictions. If they lock you our of the bios and it is only configured to boot off the HD then pop out the HD and pop in into another computer and modify whatever you want. I would wipe it and install *nix or a fresh windows install. Or you could do dual boot if you need all the school stuff. You can buy a 40-44pin IDE adapter that will allow you to put a 2.5" laptop drive in a desktop computer. If you want to unlock the bios, many bioses have backdoor passwords. If yours doesn't laptops occasionally have a pins you can short or a jumper to clear the bios but not usually. If all else fails, build yourself an EEPROM programmer and find the appropriate image.

We had some similar probs in my computer science class. We went to the county IT dept and they said they had no problem making any changes. Well, time passed and no changes were ever made. We took matters into our own hands and "obtained" the Novel, and DeepFreeze passwords and made the appropriate changes.

Now depending on the level of incompetence in your county, this probably isn't the best approach.

They might not like it but if i were you, i would either buy my own hardrive and swap it out when needed or set up dual boot.