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  1. bobsalas

    Help break password

    Thanks everyone. Will try them all and see what happens. I may just replace the HD, if all else fails.
  2. bobsalas

    Help break password

    My kids created a password on their PC (HP Pavillion, Win XP). Now they can not remember the password. We can use the PC as a guest, but can not add software or do some maintenance. Is there a way to break the password? I really need to add some software and want to upgrade the OS.
  3. bobsalas

    here's one - HD problems

    I have an old P2 256 that the kids had been using. We replaced it last year and it had been sitting in th garage gathering dust. Recently my PC died and I thought I would put this one into service as all I do is browse the internet and use MS Office. I fired it up and noticed that it only had a...
  4. bobsalas

    external HD

    I will just run it as a secondary drive. Thanks for all your help.
  5. bobsalas

    external HD

    My PC died but I salvaged the HDs. I placed them both in external cases and connected them via USB cables to my laptop. Is there a way I can set one of them up as my boot disk? I want to run some porgrams that are not on my laptop, but keep getting error messages.
  6. bobsalas

    Hard drive FAT32

    One more thing. I did take the PC to a local PC shop and they said they could get any power from the CPU. They said ti was either the MB or the CPU or both. That is what I based my opinion on.
  7. bobsalas

    Hard drive FAT32

    This HD was my boot drive with XP. The little P2 233 is running Win 2000. At start up, BIOS does not see this HD. I thought it was too big fro the MB or Win 2000. The funny thing is that when my PC died it would go through start up and then the monitor never fired up. It would read the video...
  8. bobsalas

    Hard drive FAT32

    Here is the problem...my PC crashed...MB and CPU. So I pulled out my old P2 233 PC with a 6 gig hd. I tried to connect my 15 gig hd as the primary but it could not be read. What is the largest drive a P2 233 PC can read. Does it have to be FAT32?

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