Erase win xp

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 4:03 pm

My daughter just picked up a older sony lap top that has win xp pro. Unfortunately a password is required to log on and she can't locate the person as he/she has moved with no known address (ya ya I know it sounds odd). Anyways I was just going to erase the O.S. and put my win xp back on. Problem is I can't even get the command prompt to come up without knowing the missing persons password. So how do I erase the rascal?

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 4:05 pm

Boot off your XP disk, use it to format the drive and reinstall.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 4:06 pm

You don't need to re-install anything.

click me

Samuel Dravis · Post by **Samuel Dravis** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 4:07 pm

Couldn't you just put in the XP install CD and then just overwrite it?

Heh. You guys are fast. :p

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 4:26 pm

try the default Administrator password, which isn't anything,

BUBBALOU · Post by **BUBBALOU** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 5:04 pm

goto http://www.bootdisk.com and grab a 98se version

when you get into FDISK delete NONDOS/NTFS partition

reboot with WINXP DISK