and what does that mean in English?

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 10:29, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

CMOS
Is a sort of onboard memory for the system board, it keeps everything that you set in BIOS (which is a system board program for various different things, including what the machine looks at first when it boots up). Now assuming that by default the machine looks at the CD-ROM drive first at boot-up you could in theory pull the jumpers, clear CMOS, insert a Windows disc and reinstall Windows. Not all of them do have the CD-ROM set as the first boot device by default, though, and even if they did, you'd have to wipe the partition the data's on to get full use of the harddrive back. If you didn't, you'd just have a second partition on the drive that you couldn't access because you still don't have admin privileges.

*breathes*
( Kroney, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 10:46, Reply)