# IT/Programming Help

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**Author:** ![PhunkFX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cab0a1/32.png) [@PhunkFX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PhunkFX)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 8:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-programming-help/242959/18 "2009-03-23T20:59:33Z")

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> [@car question (turbo honda)](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/car-question-turbo-honda/16030/2):
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> The client we are developing this for is a rent to own company. Basically they want software from us that will disable a pc and basically force the customer to bring in the computer to have it “fixed” and make a payment or it dosent get fixed.
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> Basically, we throw a garbage value into boot.ini so the pc won’t boot the OS.  
> The customer then brings the pc in for repair and to make a payment. At which time we use a startup fix utility to repair the damaged boot.ini file.

Yeah like said before. That can be worked around. You can install an OS without needing the bios password as long as the optical drive is set to a boot device prior to the hard drive.

What would be sweet is a hard drive encryption program such as true crypt or something like that set to encrypt the drive at your command, only making it accessable to them if they bring it in to have the decrypted… but… then again you would only have to re-install OS over the encrypted drive if it doesn’t have CMOS security.

Tough one to do on a non large programming project scale. Let me know how it turns out!

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