Since you have access to the BIOS to change boot sequence, its not a boot password. At the prompt for your password, hit ctrl+alt+del twice. Enter Administrator for the user and if you never set the password for admin, hit enter. If that does not work, try booting to safe mode and logging on as administrator? If it does have one a password, it could be your original password. I recently accessed my GF's XP machine this way when she forgot her password. Admin was set with my password since I had changed it when I installed the OS.
If that does not work, and you have no way of booting, then you may have to remove the HD. You can use a kit available at most higher level tech stores that will allow you to use it as an external drive. Then attach it to another PC. From there you can either wipe it or boot the other PC with a Linux distro that will have XP password tools on it. Don't remember the name of the Linux disto you need, but a Google search should find it.
Message Edited by Axim_X51v on 12-06-2007 08:52 PM
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If that does not work, and you have no way of booting, then you may have to remove the HD. You can use a kit available at most higher level tech stores that will allow you to use it as an external drive. Then attach it to another PC. From there you can either wipe it or boot the other PC with a Linux distro that will have XP password tools on it. Don't remember the name of the Linux disto you need, but a Google search should find it.
Message Edited by Axim_X51v on 12-06-2007 08:52 PM
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