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[KGIII]

Be VERY careful to not lose the BIOS password.

I'd seldom suggest adding a password unless you're in some sort of corporate environment or have valuable information on a portable device.

 

[SMBNY]

Be VERY careful to not lose the BIOS password.

I'd seldom suggest adding a password unless you're in some sort of corporate environment or have valuable information on a portable device.

Believe me i have. I chose a very secure, memorable, and easily remindable password unique to me.

 

[KGIII]

Believe me i have. I chose a very secure, memorable, and easily remindable password unique to me.

If you do forget it, it's usually possible to reset the system and erase the password. It's often a jumper on the motherboard or as simple as removing the small battery cell that's attached to the motherboard.

I'm not going to try to dissuade you. If I was in your shoes, I'd ask myself, "What do I gain by adding the password?" I'd also ask, "What do I risk by adding the password?"

Those are questions only you can answer. Because it's often a long time between the times where you'll access the BIOS, it's easy to forget that password. That's why I made my initial remark. But, if you're confident that you'll remember it, it's unlikely to cause any harm.

It can also be good if the device is stolen. Once the device is set up, you're already using secure boot, you can go in and disable things like USB booting. That way, if your device is stolen, it's harder for them to access your files (assuming your OS has a strong password) and there's no way for them to install a new OS (without resetting things).

 

[SMBNY]

If you do forget it, it's usually possible to reset the system and erase the password. It's often a jumper on the motherboard or as simple as removing the small battery cell that's attached to the motherboard.

I'm not going to try to dissuade you. If I was in your shoes, I'd ask myself, "What do I gain by adding the password?" I'd also ask, "What do I risk by adding the password?"

Those are questions only you can answer. Because it's often a long time between the times where you'll access the BIOS, it's easy to forget that password. That's why I made my initial remark. But, if you're confident that you'll remember it, it's unlikely to cause any harm.

It can also be good if the device is stolen. Once the device is set up, you're already using secure boot, you can go in and disable things like USB booting. That way, if your device is stolen, it's harder for them to access your files (assuming your OS has a strong password) and there's no way for them to install a new OS (without resetting things).

Believe me, I wouldn't set a bios password if it didn't fix the problem. I still don't understand the connection but hey, what can you do.

 

[gvisoc]

At the moment it's not finding any operating system on the 8gb thumb drive I have, even after setting the boot order.

If the laptop is from 2010 chances are that it's got BIOS and not EFI, and your tool of choice formatted the USB drive as "GPT" (for "general partition table", nothing to do with stochastic parrots).

Try to create a boot USB marking the options "MBR" (for "master boot record") and as many legacy-backwards-compatibility sounding checkboxes as possible.

If you use Rufus, select the partition scheme (MBR) under the drop down list of the same name, and then go to the dropdown list that says "Target System" and select "BIOS" or, if it doesn't exist, "BIOS or UEFI".

 

[osprey]

GPT == GUID Partition Table
GUID == Globally Unique Identifier

 

[gvisoc]

GPT == GUID Partition Table
GUID == Globally Unique Identifier

It is worse than I thought! I was happy thinking it would be just general, but anyway, nothing to do with AI Bubbles --that was my point.

#offtopic.

 

[wizardfromoz]

@SMBNY if or when you are confident that the solution continues to work, you can mark it as such by going to your first post, and do as follows

Near bottom left of the post click Edit - (No Prefix) - Solved

Cheers

Wizard