MDriggers said:
bottom posted below:
No. I guess if she finds all the disks and documentation that she had
with the computer (I know she has these because I remember her having to
do a reformat/reinstallation due to some nasty virus activity on campus
where she was at school), I can just do a reinstall of the OS or something
like that. Would that reset the passwords? I just have never had to do
this kind of thing and have no experience with it.
Thanks.
Yes. When you first get into setup (from the CD), delete any & all
partitions you find on the drive. Then, as part of setup, establish your
partition (probably the entire drive) and format it. Between deleting &
re-establishing the partition and re-formatting the drive, you are starting
from scratch (as though it was a new machine right off the assembly line) --
nothing of anything that was ever previously on the drive will have any
effect at all on your new OS install. Just make sure to pick an admin
password *you* will remember...