Administrator passwords

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PJ Staley

One of the benefits of working at my company (USAA)is that
when we get new computers, the old ones are given to the
employees with accompanying notes that we may be getting
the computers, but we are not entitled to technical
support. The computers we got this time were loaded with
Windows 2000 Professional. For whatever reason,the
computer I got decided after several times of shutdowns
and restarts from installing programs I needed to set up
on it, that it was going to arbitrarily ask for an
administrator password. I didn't set up a password on it,
so why would it be asking for one? I can't call my company
about it because of the previously mentioned "note" and as
the operating system was already on it, we were not given
an accompanying operating system disk. I don't have dual
operating systems or anything else equally technically
complicated, and I'm not on a "domain". I merely need to
log on to my computer and can't. Is it possible to disable
the password or get rid of it and how?
 
If I got a computer with a pre-installed OS, the first thing I would do is
trash it, format the drive and do a fresh install of Windows on it. You
need to get your own copy of Windows 2000.
 
That's fine, but how do you reformat c: drive. NT won't
let you without the admin password.
 
ooooh, I dunno, but booting from a win98 bootdisk (with cd-rom support) and
then fdisking should do the trick.

chris
 
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