[Chromebook/ChromeOS] - How do i disable my chromebook"s administrator?

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I found my old school laptop, but it has administrator on it. I cant contact the school anymore so i need help getting rid of it.
I have tried powerwashing, but hasnt worked. I cant recover the OS since Chromebook Recovery Ultity has been blocked by administrator.
If you know how to solve this, let me know.
 

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There’s a key sequence you can hold while you are rebooting, the same way you can enter into developer mode, with a key seqyuence, if it has not been disabled by an administrator (developer mode is disabled by default for entrolled devices).

On factory reset, the device will contact Google, as soon as it has internet connectivity, and won’t work until it does, and then the device will automatically reeinroll in the administrative pool.

In other words: the only one who can let you out of an administrative pool, is an administrator.

This is to make it worthless to steal Chromebooks.
 
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There’s a key sequence you can hold while you are rebooting, the same way you can enter into developer mode, with a key seqyuence, if it has not been disabled by an administrator (developer mode is disabled by default for entrolled devices).

On factory reset, the device will contact Google, as soon as it has internet connectivity, and won’t work until it does, and then the device will automatically reeinroll in the administrative pool.

In other words: the only one who can let you out of an administrative pool, is an administrator.

This is to make it worthless to steal Chromebooks.
I did that and it was really annoying that it simply wouldn't allow me to use apks as I see fit. I ended up returning the Chromebook since most apps were incompatible and I had thought Chromebooks were just Android laptops.
 

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I did that and it was really annoying that it simply wouldn't allow me to use apks as I see fit. I ended up returning the Chromebook since most apps were incompatible and I had thought Chromebooks were just Android laptops.
Fun fact: ChromeOS is actually based off of Gentoo Linux, and has support for both android apps and Linux containers, as well as a fully working steam client that is built specifically for Chromebooks
 

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I found my old school laptop, but it has administrator on it. I cant contact the school anymore so i need help getting rid of it.
I have tried powerwashing, but hasnt worked. I cant recover the OS since Chromebook Recovery Ultity has been blocked by administrator.
If you know how to solve this, let me know.
I have a faint memory of a guide that involved removing something from inside the chromebook that would automatically enroll the chromebook after factory reset, but I have no idea if it's relevant to your model and if it's actually real
 
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I found my old school laptop, but it has administrator on it. I cant contact the school anymore so i need help getting rid of it.
I have tried powerwashing, but hasnt worked. I cant recover the OS since Chromebook Recovery Ultity has been blocked by administrator.
If you know how to solve this, let me know.

You just can't. Sorry.

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use another pc to create a rescue disk,get the Google Flex OS instead of the one for you laptop.
look into removing write protect,which will involve opening up your Chromebook.:P
 

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