Our nonprofit has a compaq 8300 Elite SFF desktop (Win 10) from ~2013 that's giving warning signs of impending hard disk failure via SMART. The computer was donated used, years ago, we've lost track of the company that donated it, AND they set a setup password.
I do not know if it has been set to "stringent security," and I'm not aware of how to tell if it has, except to fool with the jumper to reset the setup password and see if it bricks the motherboard. I can't risk that, so apparently can't make any changes in the bios. (That's from my notes. It's been a couple of years since I looked into this and I don't remember details at the moment.)
So I want to clone & replace the 500 Gb boot drive with maybe a 2 Tb drive. I haven't done this in years. Is this going to need changing a setting in the (password protected) bios? Am I out of luck here?
Thanks
I do not know if it has been set to "stringent security," and I'm not aware of how to tell if it has, except to fool with the jumper to reset the setup password and see if it bricks the motherboard. I can't risk that, so apparently can't make any changes in the bios. (That's from my notes. It's been a couple of years since I looked into this and I don't remember details at the moment.)
So I want to clone & replace the 500 Gb boot drive with maybe a 2 Tb drive. I haven't done this in years. Is this going to need changing a setting in the (password protected) bios? Am I out of luck here?
Thanks