I have a Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q, Chromium system converted to Amazon is installed on my computer. Is there any possibility to install Windows on it? I can't go into the BIOS at all.
The system is booting up but there are some accounts but I don't have passwords for them, what could I do?
Without the ability to enter UEFI and disable BOOT-SECURE, you will do nothing. There are also tricks, but only when the hard drive can be removed from the hardware and connected, for example, to another laptop via USB or run (after assembly) in another laptop or desktop computer. This trick is: - removing the drive and installing it in other hardware - if there is no password on the disk then wipe all partitions and format the disk - run an installation such as Windows 7 or 8 on this device with this disk - wait for windows to copy all files and start automatically for the first time, disconnect the PC from the power after restarting - take this drive out and put it back in the laptop and run it Windows should then start installing the system from the files it prepared earlier. This trick helps with similar hardware 75% of the time.
Install on fast under Windows: https://www.dobreprogramy.pl/minitool-partition-wizard-free,program,windows,6628680619079809 Connect this disk and run the program and say what this program sees, can it see the disk at all? If there is a password assigned to the laptop on the disk, then the birds are gone. You can only try to do what I wrote above but on a different disk! Remember, however, that this laptop may block this drive, so if you fail to install Windows, the drive will have to be unlocked, and if you can't, replace the electronics, and if it doesn't, it won't go through the trash. These are the only known methods to "try" to install Windows on all these Chromo-like creations colloquially known as laptops (?). It is important that you use this program from the link because (stupid) windows cannot see Linux partitions, most likely there is a system from a laptop on such partitions, so it may be that the disk is not locked with a password. Then, it would be best to try some used (cheap, similar) laptop drive and play with Windows. Why so? Well, because if you remove the Linux partitions from your laptop, you will not recover the system and everything that was in that laptop (unless you can make a correct copy of such partitions). It is now important to check if MiniTool Partition Wizard sees this disk as unlocked or with a password. If it is blocked you will see a BLACK BAR on the strips with disks and the inscription BAD DISC. If it is unlocked the partitions will be visible, then half success.
PS. I just read that ... https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/d...tops/thinkcentre-m710q/downloads/driver-list/ for this PC there is a mass of drivers for different Windows versions. Or maybe this whole ChromiumAmazon is just some strange kind of Linux and you could install Windows without any problems? Do some trick with entering the BIOS, all the key combinations found on the net, etc. Read here: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkCentre-AEMS-Series/M710q-Desktop-cant-enter-BIOS-or-BOOT -menu / mp / 4344428 If you manage to enter even BOOT-MENU with the F1 or F9 or F10 key while booting the computer, then we are at home, then the installation of Windows will be easy. Remember that the COMPUTER must be turned off and not put to sleep (hybrid) because you cannot enter the BIOS or BOOT-MENU from the sleep state.
God, such a partition scheme and junk partition could only be created by hell or ... google. If you do not care about returning to this system (or rather you do not), having this disk connected to the stationary machine and the mini tool program turned on, proceed as in the photos, that is:
1. Right-click on each partition and select DELETE PARTITION 2.When you have marked all of this on the bar (the menu bar at the top) click APPLY 3. Then all partitions will disappear as in the picture and the whole disk will appear in UNALLOCATED format 4. Click on the disk with the right mouse and select the WIPE PARTITION option 5.Next, the MENU will appear from which select the first option in advance (Fill Sectors with zero) 6.click ok
Disk cleaning with ZEROs will start, i.e. from A to Z it will be overwritten with zeros, it will be clean from start to finish. Depending on the disk, cleaning will take from 30 to 180 minutes. When the program finishes, do nothing, mount this disk in your computer and try to install Windows.
Remember, if your computer is set in UEFI (in bios) in SATA-AHCI mode and not LEGACY (and most likely it is because you have GPT partitions), Windows7 will require the presence of the EFI folder on the installation media and the BOOTX64.EFI file in it, otherwise the installer will not start. Windows from 8.X upwards already have this directory, unfortunately Windows7 doesn't.
Come up with the Windows7 x64 installation, create a USB flash drive as indicated under the link I pasted, unpack the Windows installer if it is in windows.iso format to some directory and put the unpacked folder that I put in the attachment into it, then Windows7 will start in UEFI mode. Unpack the file from the attachment with e.g. 7zip and put the folder from it (called EFI) to the directory where you unpacked Windows7. Then, transfer everything to the prepared flash drive, just copy and paste on the pen. The medium prepared in this way allows you to run the computer with the Windows7 / 8/10/11 installer, so there should be no problem.
However, before you clean the disk, first create a properly working installation media with Windows, and when you are sure that the computer will see this media and the installer will start, clean the disk with the MiniTool program. You will have the certainty that the medium is working properly when you start the computer from it, but without the presence of the disk, do not insert the disk into it, disconnect all other disks and connect the USB flash drive. It seems to me that this PC should be set up so that it will select disks one by one (and look for the operating system on them) so there is a chance that without access to BOOT-MENU the installer will start and when it does, the rest will take place automatically, after the first installation of WINDOWS (the installer restarts the computer because it has already copied files from the flash drive to temporary partitions on the disk) and will start from the C: drive and not from the flash drive. Maybe it will work, I don't know, it needs to be checked.
If all the above mentioned fails, the "tricks" from post # 2 remain. If, on the other hand, these tricks will not help you, you will have to try to get to BOOT-MENU or the BIOS, to start with RESET with a jumper on the board - or maybe it's worth looking for a jumper now and do a reset ?? I just hope that no one has set up an administrator password for bios because then only two ways will be left: 1.replacement of the board with the same one 2. visit to the service - bones desoldering, identical assembly and programming (PLN 100-150 fun).
The discussion revolves around installing Windows on a Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q that currently runs a Chromium-based system. The user is unable to access the BIOS to disable secure boot, which complicates the installation process. Several solutions are proposed, including removing the hard drive and connecting it to another computer to format it and install Windows. Users suggest using the MiniTool Partition Wizard to manage partitions and wipe the drive if necessary. The conversation highlights the challenges of dealing with locked drives and the potential need for hardware modifications if the installation fails. Summary generated by the language model.
