Many thanks TPFLegionaire, I'm very grateful you took all the trouble to reassess the problem with the Medion techs. for me. So sad for such a simple mistake of me miss-typing to wreck a handy notebook. I will try the bios passwords offered by Gojoy just in case they work. Perhaps this is something that Medion/Lenovo could remedy in future by having a bios recovery password? I hope so. Your answer is very practical to me Again many thanks Burkathy
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