Re: NO administrator account

zinda wrote:

Malke:

It is a Dell. I cant find another administrator account anywhere. My
friend did give me copies of the OS and other programs, but I cant boot
from
the copy to reinstall. I would like to wipe the hard drive clean and
start over. I think its called debug, and reformat but I cant remember
how.

Debug has nothing to do with this and if you had actually gone to the links
I gave you in my last post you would have seen how to do a clean install!
Here they are *again* for your convenience:

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install How-To
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Reinstalling_Windows - What
you will need on-hand

Put the operating system disk into the optical drive and restart the
machine. As the machine is restarting, press the F12 key. This will give
you a temporary boot menu. Select the optical drive. Now the machine will
boot from the XP install CD. After the installation, install drivers for
all your hardware. If you have a Dell Resource CD, use that. Otherwise get
the drivers from Dell's website for your specific model computer. Or get
the drivers from Dell's site ahead of time and put them on a CD-R or USB
thumbdrive.

If you still can't figure it out from the information I've given you, there
is no shame in taking the machine to a local computer professional and
having them do it for you. I don't hesitate to take my car to the mechanic.
Don't use a BigComputerStore/GeekSquad type of place.

Malke
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MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ

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