expert thoughts on that..

Hi, I have an acer laptop which can;t boot from cd as it got a bios password.. no windows on the hard drive so can't run what ever cmos recover programs
removed the cmos battery but no luck

My question is: If I copy the iso of the recovery cd or windows setup files from the dvd to the partition of the hard drive and start the laptop!! do you guys think when it boot from cd it will recognise the windows setup files??

Cheers

ashvin said:

Hi, I have an acer laptop which can;t boot from cd as it got a bios password.. no windows on the hard drive so can't run what ever cmos recover programs
removed the cmos battery but no luck

My question is: If I copy the iso of the recovery cd or windows setup files from the dvd to the partition of the hard drive and start the laptop!! do you guys think when it boot from cd it will recognise the windows setup files??

Cheers

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ashvin, before I tried to copy the iso, I think I would try a USB drive. You only need a 4GB USB drive to hold the files from a DVD.

Question: When you removed the cmos battery, did you also remove the laptop battery from the laptop and disconnect the power supply? With everything unplugged did you press the power button to discharge any residual electric charge?

Does the Acer web site offer any instructions on resetting the cmos (or BIOS) on your laptop?

Let me see what else I can find ...

Later!
Robert

Nothing you do with the HDD or the setup files will get you past a laptop's BIOS password...

This is by design.
Usually you need to take it to an Acer service center and show proof of ownership.

Hi guys.. I got this one fixed
what I did is took out the hard drive.. put it in another laptop.. run the recovery cd- when it ended I did not restart the laptop but switched it off then transferred the hard drive to the other laptop with the bios issue..
It continued with the windows setup.. then once it booted up I runned killcmos software to take out the bios password..

ashvin said:

Hi guys.. I got this one fixed
what I did is took out the hard drive.. put it in another laptop.. run the recovery cd- when it ended I did not restart the laptop but switched it off then transferred the hard drive to the other laptop with the bios issue..
It continued with the windows setup.. then once it booted up I runned killcmos software to take out the bios password..

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That is great news! Glad you found a solution that worked for you. And thanks for posting back and letting us know!

Happy surfing!
Robert