Re: complete system reset
From: Dimmy (tim_at_educompmv.com)
Date: 05/03/03
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Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 09:17:32 -0700
FDISK has major problems deleting extended partitions and
you will often have to slave the hard drive into a box
running 2000 or xp, then you can use the built-in disk
managment utility to delete the partition and then you can
do whatever you want with it. Steve is right though you
should simply be able to boot to a 2000/xp installation CD
and blast everything. 2000 gives you the option to
specify partition size during installation. Often times
people will create a smaller non-bootable FAT32 partition
so they can ghost the primary onto it. In certain
situation where legitimate owners of 2000 have lost their
passwords you can get a linux boot disk designed to change
user passwords. This is not recommended. Just install
from CD.
>-----Original Message-----
> Does Windows XP ask for a password or are you
getting a request
>before it even loads the operating system?? If you are
not even able to get
>to XP then it may be a cmos password or syskey had been
configured to ask
>for a password. If you have a install cdrom, boot from
that to install new
>operating system and you will be given option to format
drive as part on
>installation, unless you are going back into time to use
W98, etc. You could
>also probably use a Windows 98 boot disk and use fdisk to
remove/create
>partitions - you can delete ntfs partitions in certain
situations (I forget
>if it has to be primary or extended). See link about
password FAQ. ---
>Steve
>
>http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm#password
>
>"bddorsey" <bddorsey@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:014701c3117d$3882db70$2f01280a@phx.gbl...
>> I purchased an off lease W2K Pro machine that hadn't
been
>> wiped clean. It still has it's administrator password
>> that I can't get past even though I'm willing to wipe
>> everything off and start fresh. Permissions prevent me
>> from even doing a format c:.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks.
>
>
>.
>
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