I help with my computer

[percywyattjr]

I got a computer at a yard sale and the owners forgot there password
and i cannot add my printer to the computer or log on becasue it says
that I have to admin to log in how can i override this or erase it all
and how do i go about uninstalling windows 2000 and then reinstalling
it. please help me with this.

 

[Og]

There is no generic answer for re-installing an Operating System upon a
laptop. Every manufacturer provides a different methodology.
Please refer to the documentation that came with your laptop for
instructions on how to restore it to its as-shipped state.
Steve

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I got a computer at a yard sale and the owners forgot there password
and i cannot add my printer to the computer or log on becasue it
says that I have to admin to log in how can i override this or
erase it all and how do i go about uninstalling windows 2000 and
then reinstalling it. please help me with this.

There is no generic answer for re-installing an Operating System
upon a laptop. Every manufacturer provides a different methodology.
Please refer to the documentation that came with your laptop for
instructions on how to restore it to its as-shipped state.
Steve

Og/Steve;

Where did the Original Poster (OP) state this was a laptop?
Did I miss that?


Percy Wyatt, JR;

Did the 'previous owners' give you anything other than the computer?
Like CDs, books, DVDs, etc?

Without the software installation media or some instructions on how to
restore the computer to a 'as originally purchased new' state - your options
are severely limited:

Purchase an OS of your choice, change the BIOS so it boots to CD/DVD first,
wipe the system with the OS CD/DVD of your choice and install the new OS.
At that point you should also install your applications and such.

 

[CreateWindow]

Dear Shenan,

You can try this:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=305

Need an XP disk tho...

CreateWindow
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[Og]

Og/Steve;

Where did the Original Poster (OP) state this was a laptop?
Did I miss that?

Good catch, Shenan.
I groked it using a Vulcan mind-meld via 802.11g Crystal Ball???
Steve

 

[GreenieLeBrun]

I got a computer at a yard sale and the owners forgot there password
and i cannot add my printer to the computer or log on becasue it says
that I have to admin to log in how can i override this or erase it all
and how do i go about uninstalling windows 2000 and then reinstalling
it. please help me with this.

Go to http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ . There you will find
zip files that will let you create boot floppy disks or bootable CDs
that will enable you to reset any system password on an NT class
operating system.

To reinstall W2K, boot from your W2K CD, reformat the drive and install W2K.
Although the following link is for XP the method is essentially the same.


Clean Install Windows XP
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I got a computer at a yard sale and the owners forgot there password
and i cannot add my printer to the computer or log on becasue it says
that I have to admin to log in how can i override this or erase it all
and how do i go about uninstalling windows 2000 and then reinstalling
it. please help me with this.

If the previous "owner" of the computer doesn't know the administrative
password, I'd have to seriously question whether or not he was the
legitimate owner. Was any proof of ownership provided? Were you also
provided all of licensing documentation and installation media for any
software that came with the computer?

Be that as it may, with second-hand computers, especially if
acquired from strangers but perhaps even if acquired from a family
member or friend, your wisest course of action would definitely be to
format the hard drives and start fresh. You don't want to get in
trouble because the original owner may have filled the hard drive with
kiddie porn, or have problems because the original owner
downloaded/installed viruses or other malware.

Simply boot from the Win2K installation CD. You'll be offered the
opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as part of the
installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the order of boot
devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.)


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Bruce Chambers

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