just get the service manual for the unit, there's either a jumper to change for password reset or there is the battery as mentioned above.
I would assume all BIOS work different in regards to locking people out vs locking people out + locking all BIOS settings and disallowing automated/any changes without the password and/or verification process within BIOS. Definitely assume that just buying the drive won't work, but your disk is probably dead so maybe you should buy it and in the mean time find out how to reset that password, it is easy jst read the manual.