format windows 2000

[Troncoso]

my mom got an old computer from her workplace some time ago. now, she wants to format the harddrive completely. but, i dont know the windows logon password. it runs windows 200 pro. any way i can format without the password? anyway to recover or reset it? thanks for the help.

 

[patrickv]

Why do you need to logon if you are going to format ?
Assuming there's no work documents that belongs to her just pop in the windows 2k cd and off you go. do you have a win2k disc ?

have you tried administrator ?

oops if it comes from a workplace the admin account would be blocked

 

[StrangleHold]

You dont boot into windows. Boot to the 2000 CD. If there is not at the bottom of the first boot screen Press--- Key for boot order. You will have to change your boot order to the CD first in the bios.

 

[Troncoso]

she does want to look through the files first. then clear it off. i just found out, she doesnt want it completely formatted, but just cleaned. so windows 2000 is still on it. but we dont have a 2000 boot disk. which isnt a problem. just getting on the computer.

 

[mep916]

We can't help you reset the password. If she received this computer from work, and she hasn't been granted access to the account, there's probably a good reason.