Hey guys,
this is my first post, so hello to everyone and thank you for your replies.
I just dug up my old laptop which was supposed to have a failed motherboard, but to my delightful surprise it boots up just fine. Its an ASUS GL551. The problem is this...I do not have admin access to bios, only user level access, so I cannot change the boot sequence. Then, I don't have the windows login info either, and I never setup the admin account to be visible from the login screen. My old boot sequence is: HDD, DVD, network....so no USB. Further more, I have tried to boot from other various operating systems, Mint, Trinity, torrented Win7, none of them would boot, except my official purchased Win7, but when I boot from it and select "repair system" or whatever, I get an error saying: "this version of system recovery options is not compatible". I can just do a full format...I think...maybe not considering the lack of bios access, but I have some precious data on this machine. If any of you guys can find some magical workaround, I would very much appreciate it.
bios info: Vendor - American Megatrends ver. 204
Thanks again.
--Buddha
this is my first post, so hello to everyone and thank you for your replies.
I just dug up my old laptop which was supposed to have a failed motherboard, but to my delightful surprise it boots up just fine. Its an ASUS GL551. The problem is this...I do not have admin access to bios, only user level access, so I cannot change the boot sequence. Then, I don't have the windows login info either, and I never setup the admin account to be visible from the login screen. My old boot sequence is: HDD, DVD, network....so no USB. Further more, I have tried to boot from other various operating systems, Mint, Trinity, torrented Win7, none of them would boot, except my official purchased Win7, but when I boot from it and select "repair system" or whatever, I get an error saying: "this version of system recovery options is not compatible". I can just do a full format...I think...maybe not considering the lack of bios access, but I have some precious data on this machine. If any of you guys can find some magical workaround, I would very much appreciate it.
bios info: Vendor - American Megatrends ver. 204
Thanks again.
--Buddha