HP Elitebook 2560p

[Gray-Fox]

Just bought one of these with an i5 and 8gb of ram for a very decent price, but it has a locked BIOS and boot order. All the research I've done tells me that I need to do this:

If your BIOS has a locked set boot order, and will only boot to HDD, you need to take a laptop sata drive and use an external adapter and make it dos boot-able on another host machine also placing the files on this drive, then replace the internal hdd with your created dos boot-able HDD. Powering on the machine will boot to the dos environment. Using DOS commands, navigate to your files and execute them following directions on screen. BIOS will be free of passwords, TPM will be cleared.

But before I do, I just want to know if there's any point. What will unlocking the BIOS password enable me to do that I can't do now? I was thinking of adding an SSD (external) to run all of my programs and OS from. Will I need an unlocked BIOS to do this?

Also, my PC has an eSATA port, what leads would it be useful for me to have if I am going to tinker with the laptop's innards?

 

[Gray-Fox]

Bump?