A few years ago I bought an Acer Iconia w700 6495 tablet - convertible from a local microcenter. At first Windows 8 that came preinstalled was fairly laggy for things that required the full use of the computers hardware (at the time I played minecraft and it did not run well in Win 8). Eventually I decided that I wanted to use Ubuntu on it, as I did on my desktop. I tried installing, but the Windows boot loader would not allow me to boot onto a live CD/USB and restricted the boot order and prevented other boot loaders from being used even when they were chosen in the BIOS. In order to fix this issue, I found that I could go into the BIOS and change the system to Legacy BIOS mode to install Ubuntu. It required that I make a BIOS password in order to change this. Eventually, I was able to simply boot into Legacy mode for Ubuntu (which was installed on a partition after the Windows one) and UEFI for Windows 8.1 (it updated soon after I got it). However, I soon forgot this BIOS password and was now unable to access Windows or UEFI. I have done a lot of research into figuring out how to recover or reset this type of password, but all of the programs I've tried failed and anything hardware related probably/definitively won't work because it is a tablet with the password, most likely, installed on EEPROM. Now here is my question:
1. Is there anyway that either I am missing or that others can use to recover this password without sending this tablet to acer and paying them to unlock it? I've used all the programs that I could find, DOS, backdoor passwords, CMOS battery (remeber its a tablet so that wont work), etc.
2. Is there a way to erase the windows partition that I currently have installed and (order is currently Windows partition, Storage partition, Ubuntu partition) and then install windows 10 through Legacy mode such that I it will bother work and allow me to access my Ubuntu partition (a different boot loader then the Windows default, preferably not grub 2 as that won't allow me to change between OS's without a keyboard, remember its a tablet) in the empty hard-disk space that will be left from erasing the first partition?
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated
~nprism
1. Is there anyway that either I am missing or that others can use to recover this password without sending this tablet to acer and paying them to unlock it? I've used all the programs that I could find, DOS, backdoor passwords, CMOS battery (remeber its a tablet so that wont work), etc.
2. Is there a way to erase the windows partition that I currently have installed and (order is currently Windows partition, Storage partition, Ubuntu partition) and then install windows 10 through Legacy mode such that I it will bother work and allow me to access my Ubuntu partition (a different boot loader then the Windows default, preferably not grub 2 as that won't allow me to change between OS's without a keyboard, remember its a tablet) in the empty hard-disk space that will be left from erasing the first partition?
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated
~nprism
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