xp password lost on tablet pc

[prunes]

Having stupidly bought second hand tablet pc "on trust" I can't log on as I don't have password. Of course no drives to boot from except hard disk.

Any ideas. I don,t care if i lose data as whatever files are on there are the previous owners.

Thanks for any ideas

[Black Hawk]

You could login as admin and delete the account.

[Shorty]

If he has the details.

If he doesn't.. find someone with a portable CD or floppy drive .. so you can boot off that :)

[prunes]

You could login as admin and delete the account.

can't log on. I get the CTR ALT box, then the user namer request and a set of logon sites. This computer + loads of countries ???

[prunes]

If he has the details.

If he doesn't.. find someone with a portable CD or floppy drive .. so you can boot off that :)

but will it not boot from hard disk first ?? Sorry if its a dumb question

[Necropolis]

Can you give us the make and model of the Tablet PC. Then we may be able to look into it a little more for you.

[prunes]

toshiba portege

[prunes]

If he has the details.

If he doesn't.. find someone with a portable CD or floppy drive .. so you can boot off that :)


any external drive or is there probs of compatability i.e. do I need a Toshiba one

[Black Hawk]

I don't think there should be a compatibility problem but you could always search on google just in case.

[prunes]

I didn't give model. It's a portege p3500.

Following advice I have bought an external floppy off e bay and downloaded bootdisk reccomended on another (similiar) thread. Hope this works. Also got an HD IDE cable to try that solution but no password cracking software.

Is it poss to siply delete sam file ?