bobkberg |
One more follow up to that…
After using the CD-ROM to clear the admin password, make sure you’re logging into the local machine, not any cached domains.
Bob
minxcomp1 |
i tried to boot off the cd that I created through that site you gave, but the computer would not boot off the CD..now what???? new hard drive?!?
petkoa |
> From: minxcomp1 send a private message to minxcomp1
> Date Sent: 18 Jul 2007 00:28 EDT (04:28 GMT)
> Subject: RE: windows password question
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> i tried to boot off the cd that I created through that site you
> gave, but the computer would not boot off the CD..now what???? new
> hard drive?!?
Hi minxcomp1,
What do you mean by “computer would not boot off the CD”: that bootable CD is damaged and isn’t really bootable, or that PC’s BIOS is not (can’t be) configured to boot from CD, or bootable CD is bootable but boot process doesn’t complete for some reason (with live Linux CDs the reasons are sometimes IDE driver/DMA issues)?
We will not discuss the first situation. Troubleshooting the second one is trivial and if can’t be done, you are sticked to attaching the “domain-locked” HD to another PC, which can be configured to boot from CD drive. The third situation is to use another live CD image, which will successfully boot your hardware. In fact, you can use not only some live Linux CD, but also DOS-based - I got similar problem an year ago with some second-hand Compaq PCs, and succesfully used Hiren Boot CD (http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd).
BR and good luck
Petko
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I recently purchased a computer from a "going out of business" sale for my fathers business and when I try to logon to Windows I get the logon screen with domain. I have a valid username and password but obviously i am not connected to a domain. I need to bypass this if possible. The safe mode trick that I see all over did not work. Please help as our business is suffering!!! 
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