Is there any way at all to reset this security password myself instead of having the thing "repaired"?

I understand that reflashing the firmware doesn't reset the security code, but what about eMMC? I just can't believe I would have to send this off so soon, and only due to my own laziness or forgetfulness. There has to be some way for you to reset the whole thing. I can browse some of the user documents but nothing else. Windows even detects that there is another partition there but it cannot read it. When I plug it up running ubuntu in vmware it only picks up the user docs partition. Maybe there is a method to mount the other partition and delete the password file?

Any help? I've done some searching but come up with nothing.