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Anonymous   04-15-2005 at 01:35:40 PM

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I have recently been given a Dell CPi laptop which was an old work machine,
it comes with a docking station, loaded with win 2000 professional. The
problem that I have is that I dont have access to the Administrator
password, I can only login as guest so I dont have access to any of the
features. I can only have the floppy drive or cd drive in the laptop at one
time and I cannot alter the CMOS to boot from floppy as it wont toggle
between drives. I want to format the machine completely and install windows
98, please can anyone tell me how to do this


TIA

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Anonymous   04-15-2005 at 01:35:41 PM
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"Timax45" <noanswer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:eXMEYVYQFHA.3596@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>I have recently been given a Dell CPi laptop which was an old work machine,
>it comes with a docking station, loaded with win 2000 professional. The
>problem that I have is that I dont have access to the Administrator
>password, I can only login as guest so I dont have access to any of the
>features. I can only have the floppy drive or cd drive in the laptop at one
>time and I cannot alter the CMOS to boot from floppy as it wont toggle
>between drives. I want to format the machine completely and install windows
>98, please can anyone tell me how to do this
>
>
> TIA
>
>


What is the Boot order of the BIOS? If the Hard Drive is listed first, I
think you will not be able to format the drive because you will not be able
to boot from a floppy or a CD.

--
William

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