Hi all. Hope someone can help me with my problem. I have a Latitude X1 with XP professional. This used to be an office laptop with an assigned domain. The laptop was given to me as part of my severance but the office domain was never cleared out. I have not had a problem logging on with the assigned domain...until... It appears that Windows was corrupted and I could not get to the Windows log on page (it would not go past the Dell start up page and starting in various safe modes did not work). However, I had some help and someone did something to the laptop and now I can get to the Windows log on page. However, the previous domain details appears to have been wiped out, and I can no longer log in under that domain. I have tried unsuccessfully to obtain the original local laptop log in details. So it seems that I am stuck. I have the original Windows software and have tried to start up the laptop to read from an external CD drive. I have gone into BIOS and changed the boot sequence to read from the CD drive several times, but it does not want to do so and keeps going back to reading from the internal HD. I have even disabled it from reading from the internal HD, but it comes up with "no bootable devices - strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility". I have checked the Windows CD and it appears to be fine. What am I doing wrong? Is there anyway I can bypass the log-on page? I have backed up all the data from the internal HD. I can access all the data on the internal HD from another computer. Is my only option to delete and reformat the internal HD, or are there any files that I can edit/delete to allow me to access my laptop without having to go through the log-on page? I would rather not have to reformat the entire HD and then spend hours/days rebuilding it. Any advice much appreciated. Thanks.