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Erase win xp
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 4:03 pm
by woodchip
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?
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 4:05 pm
by Krom
Boot off your XP disk, use it to format the drive and reinstall.
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 4:06 pm
by MD-2389
You don't need to re-install anything.
click me
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 4:07 pm
by Samuel Dravis
Couldn't you just put in the XP install CD and then just overwrite it?
Heh. You guys are fast. :p
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 4:26 pm
by fliptw
try the default Administrator password, which isn't anything,
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 5:04 pm
by BUBBALOU
goto
http://www.bootdisk.com and grab a 98se version
when you get into FDISK delete NONDOS/NTFS partition
reboot with WINXP DISK