xp password lost on tablet pc

prunesprunes
edited August 2004 in Science & Tech
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

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  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    You could login as admin and delete the account.
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    If he has the details.

    If he doesn't.. find someone with a portable CD or floppy drive .. so you can boot off that :)
  • prunesprunes
    edited August 2004
    Black Hawk wrote:
    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 ???
  • prunesprunes
    edited August 2004
    Shorty wrote:
    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
  • NecropolisNecropolis Hawarden, Wales Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    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.
  • prunesprunes
    edited August 2004
    toshiba portege
  • prunesprunes
    edited August 2004
    Shorty wrote:
    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
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    I don't think there should be a compatibility problem but you could always search on google just in case.
  • prunesprunes
    edited August 2004
    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 ?
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