Question Secure boot with change of harddrive?

[opuzen]

OK, so, I have a bit of a tricky situation here. I have a computer that I do not have the (bios) supervisor password to. It boots completely fine, unfortunately it’s lockef to secure boot, and I can’t change that.

Now, I should like to install another hard drive, and/or clone another operating system from another computer. As far as I understand that can or cannot trigger secure boot to come up with an error. I suppose that in this case I would have to enter the supervisor password for the machine, which I don’t have.

I guess my question is, do I risk anything by swapping the hard drive, can I always swap the old drive back, or will I be screwed if I happened to trigger the ‘tripwire’ of secureboot?

Any input appreciated

(The machine is legit to the best of my knowledge btw)

There is no way to reset the password, have looked into that.

 

[rgd1101]

if the laptop is legit, contact the person who know the password

 

[USAFRet]

BIOS password happens before any drive action.
Ask whoever set that password.

 

[opuzen]

I’m not sure I made myself clear. The bios password is the supervisor password. It only needs to be entered if you want to change certain things in the bios (amongst those disabling secure boot). The machine boots fine without it. It has changed hands several times, so the guy who originally set the password is not the one who sold it to me. The second buyer didn’t have any need to access the bios, so he never knew it was set.

 

[opuzen]

My question pertains more to whether I will screw up secure boot if I swap in another (faster) harddrive.

 

[USAFRet]

Putting in a different drive?
Unknown.

"and/or clone another operating system from another computer "
That is absolutely a bad idea, even without the password issue.

 

[opuzen]

Windows 10 is pretty resilient to swapping hardware

 

[USAFRet]

Windows 10 is pretty resilient to swapping hardware

I've seen it work, I've seen it fail, I've seen it sort of work.

Win 10 is better than previous. But by no means 100%.

 

[opuzen]

For sure. These are pretty similar machines though