lost admin passwords

[Guest]

I was given a fujitsu lifebook that does now have a cd rom or a floopy. my
friend does not remember the password for admin and the system does not have
a the ability to boot from cd or floopy. i've tried but i can not load the
softward to boot from the same manufacture's cd rom. the windows security
won't let me load that software from the c prompt. so i need to get this
password without using floopy or cd room if possiable, or this box is
usless..... and its a nice box.

Thanks, dan

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You can use it for a flower pot base....

 

[Steven L Umbach]

I find it hard to believe that it can not be configured to boot from a
floppy or cdrom. Try going to the manufacturer's website for the computer to
see how you can gain access to cmos settings to configure it to boot from
floppy and/or cdrom. --- Steve

 

[Guest]

i spent several hours with there online chat help, and i have the same
manufacture pcmcia drive but they have a program that has to be run from the
dos promt to enable it to be seen before windows loads, but i need the admin
password to load the program. The system would normaly come with a recovery
partition, but my frined a doctor... didn't know better and removed it. its
quite a catch 22, unless there's a way to crack or reset the pasword without
booting. If I could boot i'd have no probelm reformating the harddrive at all

 

[Steven L Umbach]

What about the cdrom?? Did you access cmos to see what settings are
available? Try booting into safe mode and try to logon as administrator with
a blank password as that often works in XP Home. As far as the floppy I
can't see how running an application so that Windows can see it is relevant
to booting from the floppy because that would bypass loading Windows anyhow.
Try emailing the manufacturer. I am sure they would have a way to install
the operating system. --- Steve

 

[Guest]

well there is no floopy, i was only able to put a usb floopy and the cmos
wont boot from it. The PCMCIA CD drive is not bootable from the CMOS without
running this software they h ave, which would not run becuase i could not get
to the dos prompt in XP pro... by the way.... without the admin
password......

thanks

 

[Steven L Umbach]

OK. I did not realize they were all PCMCIA devices. The things I would try
from here are to buy an internal cdrom for the computer from a source like
Ebay. The link below is a possibility but I don't know if that will work
depending your model number. Another possibility is to try and put your
computers hard drive in another computer which may need to be the primary
drive and then boot from the password change floppy disk to see if you can
reset the password that way. There are cheap kits that allow you to put
laptop hard drives in desktop computers as shown in the second link below. I
don't know how hard it would be to remove the hard drive. Some computers
like Thinkpads make it very easy and other like Toshiba can make it
difficult without a service manual. --- Steve

http://cgi.ebay.com/Fujitsu-E-Lifeb...ryZ80198QQssPageNameZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=HD-108&cat=HDD

 

[Malke]

well there is no floopy, i was only able to put a usb floopy and the
cmos
wont boot from it. The PCMCIA CD drive is not bootable from the CMOS
without running this software they h ave, which would not run becuase
i could not get
to the dos prompt in XP pro... by the way.... without the admin
password......

Then send the laptop back to the mftr. for repair. Otherwise you have a
doorstop.

Malke

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I find it hard to believe that it can not be configured to boot from a
floppy or cdrom.

I think we now know why the computer was "given" to the OP.

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[Bruce Chambers]

I was given a fujitsu lifebook that does now have a cd rom or a floopy. my
friend does not remember the password for admin and the system does not have
a the ability to boot from cd or floopy. i've tried but i can not load the
softward to boot from the same manufacture's cd rom. the windows security
won't let me load that software from the c prompt. so i need to get this
password without using floopy or cd room if possiable, or this box is
usless..... and its a nice box.

Thanks, dan

Contact Fujitsu for warranty service and a replacement OS installation
CD. (Or thank your friend for the thick, non-absorbent place mat.)


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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having
both at once. - RAH

 

[Guest]

If you just want to reformat the drive, take it out and attach it as a slave
to another station. Boot from the receiving station and reformat.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Then he could also format the drive with the /s option so that he can boot
from it and then copy the I386 folder from the Windows XP installation disk
to his hard drive and install it using the winnt command on the laptop.
Been quite a while since I have done installs with winnt but it should
ork. --- Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/winntsw.mspx
--- using winnt