Help me PLEASE!

[yesimstupid]

long story short I bought a storage unit that never was paid on.
Inside it was a lap top. Dell c800. Problem. I can't get pass the
login screen. It is secured. Anything short of reformatting the
whole hard drive.

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[Skeleton Man]

long story short I bought a storage unit that never was paid on.

Inside it was a lap top. Dell c800. Problem. I can't get pass the
login screen. It is secured. Anything short of reformatting the
whole hard drive.

This is a software issue rather than one of hardware.. I'm assuming windows
XP ?

Regards,
Chris

 

[CBFalconer]

long story short I bought a storage unit that never was paid on.
Inside it was a lap top. Dell c800. Problem. I can't get pass the
login screen. It is secured. Anything short of reformatting the
whole hard drive.

That won't do it. You need to contact Dell with its serial
number, and convince them that you are the legal owner.

 

[kony]

long story short I bought a storage unit that never was paid on.
Inside it was a lap top. Dell c800. Problem. I can't get pass the
login screen. It is secured. Anything short of reformatting the
whole hard drive.

While it's arguable that you may be entitled to the laptop,
at least for now, you are not entitled to the data on it.
You're treading in murky waters here, best to contact owner
and find out what they're going to do, but otherwise, format
drive and start from scratch.

 

[yak]

While it's arguable that you may be entitled to the laptop,
at least for now, you are not entitled to the data on it.
You're treading in murky waters here, best to contact owner
and find out what they're going to do, but otherwise, format
drive and start from scratch.

P'Shaw... It's yours, the slob should have paid his rent.

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

make the cd and boot from it with the laptop, it will reset the
passwords to whatever you want. If the deadbeat had any encrypted files
with that efs system in windows then you won't be able to access them
after the password change.