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| 548560 | 2007-05-09 07:05:00 | I got a laptop to fix, a mate of the person who gave it to her, has now gone to Oz. The prob is, its locked down (Its a Compaq NX6320 laptop). Two partitions, ones 60 GB the other ab |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 548561 | 2007-05-09 07:09:00 | Damn lag I know the above post will disappear so will do it again . I got a laptop to fix, a mate of the person who gave it to her, has now gone to Oz . The prob is, its locked down (Its a Compaq NX6320 laptop) . Two partitions, ones 60 GB the other about 973MB for the restore partition . There is an option on it (In program files), to restore it, BUT since the user who logs into it, isnt Admin, this doesnt work . Well actually stuff all works . User Accounts is disabled, u cant install, cant get into device manager . So, I tried to reinstall XP on it to see if it worked . It got so far (I managed to extract the sata drivers with Winimage), and put them on the USB flash drive here (the hdd is a 60 GB SATA), coz without them (the drivers), XP's setup cant/wont find the hdd) . After copying the sata drivers to the USB flash drive, and pressing F6 while it was getting to XP's setup . It did detect the hdd (well one of the partitions, BUT not the other (It detected the 973MB partition, NOT the 60GB partition) . Anyone figure out why?? Can a mod delete the 1st post . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 548562 | 2007-05-09 07:38:00 | You should be able to initiate the restore from the boot screen. What do you mean locked down? You can go into safe mode and log in as machine administrator can't you? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 548563 | 2007-05-09 08:20:00 | Pressing F8 after u reboot does nothing, but pressing F9 is the boot device menu, and F10 is the BIOS. There are no other options on the post screen to tell u what F key does what. Besides the above 2. Tried F1/F2/F12 nothing. So it looks like safe mode was disabled within XP as well. You can log into normal XP no prob. Its actually doing anything AFTER. And u cant format (do a clean install), coz the XP setup cant find the 60gb partition, only the smaller partition). |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 548564 | 2007-05-09 08:45:00 | HI Speedy. I don't know if this will help but it's worth a look. pubs.logicalexpressions.com It refers to forgotten Adminisrators passwords. |
Bryan (147) | ||
| 548565 | 2007-05-09 08:59:00 | Can you use one of those Linux Recovery disks to just break through the password? | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 548566 | 2007-05-09 09:07:00 | HI Speedy. I don't know if this will help but it's worth a look. pubs.logicalexpressions.com It refers to forgotten Adminisrators passwords. Thanx for the info Bryan, I'll try that. I can get/log into it, its doing anything else AFTER I get in it (ie: User accounts for one). |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 548567 | 2007-05-09 09:09:00 | Can you use one of those Linux Recovery disks to just break through the password? I did try something similar some reset thing, (most of the files on it were linux based), it was an ISO. So I burned it to a cd. Its meant to fix things like this but didnt :( |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 548568 | 2007-05-09 09:34:00 | HI Speedy. I don't know if this will help but it's worth a look. pubs.logicalexpressions.com It refers to forgotten Adminisrators passwords. Umm typing in that cpl file, brings up an error. Its not on the cd. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 548569 | 2007-05-09 09:39:00 | Check out . eunet . no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk . html" target="_blank">home . eunet . no for resetting the administrator password . Failing that if there is nothing on the machine you want I'd blow away all the partitions using one of the partition managers on http://www . ultimatebootcd . com/ and then install from scratch :-) |
gcarmich (10068) | ||
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