I have this laptop and I wanted to boot from a cd-rom and I decided to check the BIOS to make sure it can boot from a floppy but I remembered it was password-protected as a security protection incase it got stolen and now I was like damn I forgot the password. I tried searching Google and found "backdoor" passwords and some got me into the BIOS but it wasn't working correctly because I couldn't change things or see the startup stuff. Can I recover the password without losing BIOS settings?

Well first, there are "several" passwords that can be applied in thinkpads, Go to the IBM website and find and download the user and the "hardware maintenance manual" The only password you can't remove easily if you don't know it (I think) is the "supervisor" and the one for the hard drive. If you don't know the one for the hard drive, just throw it away and get a new one, because you cannot remove it easily. Read around this site here for awhile: http://www.ja.axxs.net/unlock/manuals.htm which came from here: http://www.ja.axxs.net/unlock/