BIOS/UEFI toughbook.

alli6968

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Guys,

Here is my issue.
I have a employers issued Panasonic Toughbook model CF-19 it is lying idle at moment and want to use for personal use.
problem is IT department have locked out basically all functions because they want to control what you can log onto the network for istance wkifi disabled usbs disabled basically all that is active is ethernet port for logging onto company network.

Now my idea was replace hard drive and put fresh copy of windows on and all would be well. obviously when i have to return it I would then just replace original HDD and all back to how it was.
Unfortunately bios is also password protected. can I unlock this to achieve above.

regards
 
Can you get to the boot menu by pressing esc after Panasonic splash screen?

If yes, you've nothing to loose by throwing a spare 2.5" HDD or SDD in, or even a live boot disc/USB.

If no, then it's unlikely without the BIOS password. However, it might be possible to generate the master password to get into the BIOS.
 
can get to the bios screen but cant change any values as it then asks for password.
any pointers for creating master password
 
I had a cf18 very similar could not get into bios.
The way I did mine was to take hard drive out so it hopefully boots to next item plugged in a usb cdrom and downloaded a bios password killer disk worked a treat.
 
Ramtec, thanks for reply, unfortunately wont work as bios set to boot from HDD only all other devices disabled by my IT department. Looks like i put it back in drawer and let it gather dust then [emoji31]


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I had a cf18 very similar could not get into bios.
The way I did mine was to take hard drive out so it hopefully boots to next item plugged in a usb cdrom and downloaded a bios password killer disk worked a treat.
Problem with that is it's his work's laptop. Some companies may view such obvious actions as gross misconduct.

However, assuming Windows, you might try installing on another machine, utilizing sysprep (setting to shutdown rather than reboot), then moving the hard disk over.
 
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