My dad gave me his work laptop, and told me to wipe it and sell it... Problem is I can't figure out how to bypass this admin lock.Also tried doing the utilman1.exe rename in command prompt to get administrator privileges, but that didn't work.What other methods can I try, I really want to use this laptop for coding cause it is small and comfy.
>>1567362>Problem is I can't figure out how to bypass this admin lock.Skip resetting Windows, put Win10 ltsc on a thumb drive, install fresh The bios could be locked down and preventive USB boot. If so, pop hard drive, wipe, put Windows installer on drive, reinstall
>>1567374Thanks for that solution, going to try that now.Having a hard time trying to find the SDD on it tho.
>>1567374This SSD small as fuck.Seems like I might need to buy a SSD Docking Station since my computer only has one port. Or maybe I can have my windows installation on a hard drive, and them modify it there, then return it.
>>1567381You've gone through everything you can on the bios to see if you can convince it to usb boot? I've been locked out of boot drive selection before and found some other random options for repair that just worked
>>1567362Wiping the drive means zero fill (or more) it doesn't mean getting into windows and modifying what's installed. It means blanking the entire SSD/hard drive multiple times over so no one can get access to the data. THEN you can reinstall windows if needed or Linux to your desires. Here's a free open sauce version called lethehttps://github.com/Kostassoid/letheCOPY/PASTA BELOW:A secure, free, cross-platform and open-source drive wiping utility.Should work with any HDD, SSD (read limitations) and flash drives.The usual methods for wiping (or sanitization) a drive, including those (allegedly) used by government agencies are based on destructive writes. In other words, on overwriting existing data with multiple layers of randomly generated data or some static pattern. This is basically what this tool does.There are other similar applications around (including multiple built-in Linux tools). Most of them are proprietary, or slow, or non-cross-platform, which was a requirement for me. So I wrote this application.
Oh and if there is a bios lock, the only way you can short that is to open the computer up and take out the bios battery for a while (overnight - I don't know how long it requires but this doesn't hurt to wait this long) to nuke all settings (it's really not that hard if you follow youtube videos on the make/model disassembly). Also unplug the main laptop battery and have no connection to any power source. You want to drain this fucker dry...You may wish to research BIOS resetting or updating for that make/model. I am not sure if a simple bios upgrade (to the same BIOS version) will work or not to reset all settings but it's worth a shot. Anyhow, once you're inside the laptop, you may wish to clean all the dust off the fan and even go so far as to re-thermal paste the CPU to the heatsink and fan. It's all not that hard to do but you may misplace screws. So my advice is to take pictures as you go and/or to use a piece of paper and draw on the paper what you're taking out and how many screws went to that area of the disassembly. Like fan, 8 screws, long type...draw a circle and put all those screws in that circle so you can keep track of what goes where. Because if you don't you'll end up with extra screws or a ribbon cable that you forgot to attach.
>>1567479Uh oh...
>>1567496If you wanna wipe everything anyway who cares about BitLocker. Just get DBAN and nuke that baby.
>>1567498I installed DBAN onto a 16GB USB using Rufus, plugged it into the laptop, nothing happened, bit locker greeted me again.What am I doing wrong?I am very new to bypassing bios and such plz be patient with me.
>>1567502You're not bypassing the BIOS. You're wiping out the hard drive. That's what you want, right?
>>1567510It's a SSD, and if wiping out the hard drive means getting pass the admin lock, sure.My goal here is to make the laptop usable and getting into the operating system to install whatever I want on there.
>>1567511Is that a Dell Inspiron 15 3593 (15.6-inch model from around 2019-2020)?1. At the BIOS password prompt, enter a wrong password 3–5 times.It should display a system code / hash (something like 1234567-595B or a similar format).2. Go to bios-pw.org on another device.Select Dell and enter the code.3. Try the generated passwords (usually several options). Some models require Ctrl + Enter instead of just Enter.This works on a huge number of Dell laptops.
>>1567512It is a Dell Latitude 5430, also I could try that but I am stopped by the BitLocker Recovery screen.I've tried that method some time ago, but I believe this has been locked up by some company already, this was my Dad's old work laptop.This is all great information tho, I could make a chart of all the ways to bypass a login. And Refer to it when I forget.
