Re: Administrator password required, but I never set one!

Best of luck to you.

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Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

Subguy wrote:
Well, no, I thought it might be possible to scan the drive while leaving it in the inoperable computer (in other words, the computer would act like the enclosure I considered buying), but maybe that's not possible. I just hate to spend $50 for a drive enclosure, then find out that the drive is fine and there is no virus.

I was able to get the computer to start to boot from the Windows CD again (turns out that somehow the BIOS got set to OFF), so I think I'm going to try to get one of those password crack codes and do the Windows Recovery Console. The only roadblock to getting to the next step is the original problem--an administrator password is required and I never set one.

Al

"Ted Zieglar" wrote:

Of course it's possible to transfer data directly from one computer to another, with the right software and the right kind of connection.

So it seems you're taking a different track now? Instead of using computer A to scan the hard disk of computer B for viruses, you're thinking of backing up your data files from B to A and then erasing B for a clean install?

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Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

Subguy wrote:
OK. Sorry for the apparently dumb question. It's just that I know it is possible to connect a desktop and laptop and transfer data from one drive to the other, so I thought maybe the laptop would recognize the hard drive in the desktop, and I could do what I need to do, without having to go through the trouble and expense of taking it out and putting it in a case.

Al

PS - I wasn't planning to attach the cable directly to the hard drive.



"Ted Zieglar" wrote:

How do you plan to attach a USB cable to a hard drive while it's still inside your computer? Forget it...it's a rhetorical question, because it can't be done. Look, don't play around. Just do what you need to do.

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Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

Subguy wrote:
What would happen if I left the hard drive in my inoperable computer and hooked it up to my laptop via USB cable? Would I be able to access the hard drive in the desktop computer that way?

Al

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