I bought a PC from a company and windows 2000 is already installed. I tried to reinstall windows 2000 but every time it boots up it always boot on hard drive. I changed the boot sequence on the BIOS to floppy and cd-rom and when it boot it seems like it reads on floppy and cd-rom bec. it light up but it will still boot on the hard drive. What should I do, PLEASE help.
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forgot the adminstrator password
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jgoodman00
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- Jan 23, 2001
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Also, it only gives you a few seconds to boot from CD, displaying the 'press a key' message. If you are not paying attention it is all to easy to miss the message... James Goodman
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If you are looking to just reinstall W2K then disregard this post. If you would rather just change the administrators password on the local machine you can do so by using the Unix based boot disk found at the link given below.
The directions can bve found out the link as well.
It won't help you with a Domain password but it will change the local administrators password. It has an option tio change even if syskey has been enabled. I have never tested that however.
The directions can bve found out the link as well.
It won't help you with a Domain password but it will change the local administrators password. It has an option tio change even if syskey has been enabled. I have never tested that however.
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