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[chris31560]

hi guys, need help on this as its doin my head in ,, rite here we go,
bought a comp off ebay about 5 months ago its been working fine up to a couple of days ago and now its asking for a password before i can log on, ive tryed evrything i know and its not havin it, see when i bought it upon boot up it allways asked for password but if i just clicked ok it bypassed it and booted now since i was havin a look in user the other day tryin to get that off its got worse and as i said now it wonts some kind of password, now i know when i bought this comp he said it was a ex goverment comp if that means anything, any help on this would be great,
my os is windows xp pro..cheers.chris..

[Rodbouy]

Get Hirens and boot form that and remove the password.

[chris31560]

hi m8, were do i get hirens from? and also is there any other way to get passed this.cheers.chris..

[dasteph]

Hiren's BootCD 15.2 - All in one Bootable CD ? www.hiren.info

[chris31560]

thanks for ur help so far guys, but could u tell me will the free hirens edition work to remove the password or will i have to buy the full one.cheers.chris..

[chris31560]

hi guys, ok did wot u said downloaded hirens, burned it onto a cd put cd into comp booted comp nothing happened it just went as normal ie: windows xp logo then enter password just as before, must be doin something wrong, any help would be great.cheers..chris...

[Rodbouy]

hi guys, ok did wot u said downloaded hirens, burned it onto a cd put cd into comp booted comp nothing happened it just went as normal ie: windows xp logo then enter password just as before, must be doin something wrong, any help would be great.cheers..chris...

Was it a ISO image you downloaded ? Then burned that to disc.

Can't mind if you need to change boot seq in bios to boot from cd dvd.

[chris31560]

hi m8, yes it said u must change ur boot sequance in bios to cd/dvd, thats wot i did but still nothing but i did notice that after i changed the boot settin in bios the next time i booted it had changed to normal boot should that happen? any other help on this would be great m8 as its doin my head in,.cheers...chris..

[Rodbouy]

try this one

[dasteph]

hi m8, yes it said u must change ur boot sequance in bios to cd/dvd, thats wot i did but still nothing but i did notice that after i changed the boot settin in bios the next time i booted it had changed to normal boot should that happen? any other help on this would be great m8 as its doin my head in,.cheers...chris..

it should not revert to a normal boot when you change the boot sequance if you save it before exit.

[chris31560]

hi m8, well it does m8, i dont know why?? maybe i am doin something wrong, could u talk me through the prosess of changing the boot format from normal boot to cd/dvd boot just in case i am gettin it wrong.cheers..chris..

[jackthelad1]

If its a desktop hold F8 when you switch on,or if it`s a laptop press F12 on bootup..then choose to boot from CD.

[chris31560]

cheers m8 i will give that a go..

[chris31560]

hi m8, yes its a desktop tryed holding in f8 key on start up and there is no opption for booting with cd/dvd in the drop down list, do u know of anything els.cheers..chris.

[dasteph]

press delete to get into the bios then change the 1st boot sequence from hd to dvd/cd then press f10 to save and exit, it should then boot from the hirens disc.