W2K login help

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Guest

Hello. I was given a laptop with windows 2000 pro on it.
The person does not know the password to log into windows.
Is there any way to get around the password or to boot
into DOS so I can install windows 98?? Any help would be
great. Thank you.
 
P

Pegasus \(MVP\)

Hello. I was given a laptop with windows 2000 pro on it.
The person does not know the password to log into windows.
Is there any way to get around the password or to boot
into DOS so I can install windows 98?? Any help would be
great. Thank you.

The password won't help you, since you have to reformat
the disk, and Win2000 won't let you format the system disk.
This now becomes a Win98 issue:
- Boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk from www.bootdisk.com.
- Run fdisk.exe to repartition the disk. You will, of course, lose
all data.
- Install Win98
 

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