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14th January 2006, 18:35
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Recovering password without a floppy or cd drive
Dear forum,
I have a former work laptop running xp pro that I would like to get administrator privledges for (currently I cannot load programs and change certain settings without logging in as the administrator). The computer does not have a floppy or cd drive however. Is there a way to use any of the methods you suggested without such a drive? (I noticed there was a similar sample question in Dan's read first comments but I did not see a response). Also, I have tried to email loginrecovery.com but the message is returned with a delivery failure message making me wonder if they are still opertating. The machine does have USB ports available. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, bunit |
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14th January 2006, 18:53
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Re: Recovering password without a floppy or cd drive
Can you set the BIOS to allow you to boot from the USB port?
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17th January 2006, 04:45
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Re: Recovering password without a floppy or cd drive
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"There I stood at the bar, wearing a Mae West, no jacket, and beginning to leak blood from my torn boot. None of the golfers took any notice of me - after all, I wasn't a member!" Kenneth Lee - after being shot down during the Battle of Britain on the 18th August 1940. ************************************************** ********************** ** Remember to give credit where credit is due and leave reputation points where appropriate ** ************************************************** ********************** |
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17th January 2006, 07:09
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Re: Recovering password without a floppy or cd drive
I don't have a floppy or cd drive and the instructions for Dan's recommended choice of www.loginrecovery.com does not have instructions for using a USB flash drive. The loginrecovery website looks for the a: drive to download a floppy based solution (which I don't have). The cd based solution downloads a file which you can use to burn an ISO file on a CD. I've tried copying the cd ISO file to my flash drive (and having BIOS look to removeable devices first when booting) but the computer doesn't seem to look to/read the flash drive.
Any ideas besides buying a USB floppy drive? |
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#6
17th January 2006, 08:18
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Re: Recovering password without a floppy or cd drive
Do you know how to make your flash drive (I assume this is your USB storage device) bootable?
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"There I stood at the bar, wearing a Mae West, no jacket, and beginning to leak blood from my torn boot. None of the golfers took any notice of me - after all, I wasn't a member!" Kenneth Lee - after being shot down during the Battle of Britain on the 18th August 1940. ************************************************** ********************** ** Remember to give credit where credit is due and leave reputation points where appropriate ** ************************************************** ********************** |
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18th January 2006, 12:54
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Re: Recovering password without a floppy or cd drive
Have a read here. http://www.google.com.au/search?sour...drive+bootable
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"There I stood at the bar, wearing a Mae West, no jacket, and beginning to leak blood from my torn boot. None of the golfers took any notice of me - after all, I wasn't a member!" Kenneth Lee - after being shot down during the Battle of Britain on the 18th August 1940. ************************************************** ********************** ** Remember to give credit where credit is due and leave reputation points where appropriate ** ************************************************** ********************** |
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