Hard Drive and Admin Password on Boot

[Guest]

A Dell Laptop was given to me and it has an admin and hard drive password set
on boot up. I do not know the password and I cannot locate the person who
gave it to me. What is the best way to bypass this to fdisk the harddrive
and reinstall xp pro?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You'll have to contact Dell support and request a
BIOS reset disk. Have the laptop's serial number
and Dell service tag number handy as they will request it.
The numbers are located on the bottom of the laptop.

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| A Dell Laptop was given to me and it has an admin and hard drive password set
| on boot up. I do not know the password and I cannot locate the person who
| gave it to me. What is the best way to bypass this to fdisk the harddrive
| and reinstall xp pro?