I need a boot disk for winXP, anyone know wherre I might get one?

Question

my laptop keeps asking for a password when windows boots up.
I just got through clearing the bios password......
PLEASE help if you can.
Thanks iimmy

Answer 1

Petter Nordahl-Hagen has written a Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 offline password editor. The utility will (re)set the password of any valid, local account by modifying the encrypted password in the registry's SAM file. You just set a new one. The tool works offline, you have to shutdown your computer and boot the tool of a cd or boot disk.

Care: If used on users with EFS encrypted files, and the system is XPall encrypted files for that will not be readablke any more and cannot be recovered unless you remember the old password!

Password boot cd:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/cd060213.zip.

Password boot disk:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bd050303.zip

Abstract from:

http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm#20

Answer 2

Try turning the machine on and hitting the key 'F8', you can then select quite a few options...Pick Safe Mode. You will come to the Welcome Screen, click on the user called 'Administrator'. If it logs in, GREAT.

Now considering it goes in, go to 'My Computer', then on the upper left, click on 'Change a setting' then 'User accounts', click on the user you normally use and then there would be an option of removing the password.

If you can't login to the 'Administrator' account......
Are there any important data on the Hard drive? If not, you can use you master CDs (that should be supplied with the PC) and reformat the machine, which is like a fresh install. There would be no passwords etc.

But you do lose all data and programs.

Answer 3

Try booting the laptop in Safe Mode (press F8 during boot up until it gives you the Safe Mode option screen). Select the Administrator account, and leave the password blank. If the laptop came with XP preinstalled, the password is normally left blank. Good luck...