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Erase Hard disk 12" G4 powerbook

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tonymul

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Feb 15, 2005
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can anyone help, i have a G4 powerbook running OS X 3.3. i've lost my admin password, although i can log in under another, but with no access priv. i want to erase the hard disk and install OS X fresh, but i cannot without my admin password. i do not have the original OS X disks to reset the password, the G4 will not mount as a target disk on another mac via firewire and it will not boot from a disk.
 
As far as I know, without the OSX install disk there's no way to bypass the Admin password protection.
 
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