At the company we have a Laptop HP Elitebook 8770w which has some problems with booting. We had an SSD to boot from and a 2nd HDD. The Windows 7 OS is installed on the SSD. Now we have removed the SSD from the laptop and tried to install Windows 7 on the HDD which failed. I've already found out that the problem is that the HDD is configurated in RAID instead of IDE/SATA. This can easily be solved by accessing the BIOS and change it from there.
Now the problem is: the BIOS is locked with a password which is unknown for us. We've tried several standard passwords but neither of those appeared to be working for us. This can be solved by calling the HP-Support and ask for a file to flash the BIOS. We would like to keep this option as the very last.
Is there any way we could switch the HDD from RAID to IDE/SATA so we can install Windows 7 on it?