I got a hand me down labtop froma family member and it has all his work stuff on it i want to erase all the stuff in it so i could put my own stuff on it, i also cant get by his password, he doesnt remeber it but it is a new labtop he just wanted to give it to my son for a birthday gift?
2007-06-16 21:11:56 · 8 answers · asked by cadillac_0645 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Most laptops come with a "recovery disc set" whch resets EVERYTHING to how it came out the box, if you don't have this contact the manufacturer of the laptop to find out if they can provide one, if not ask whoever had the laptop originally.
Other than that you'll need a Windows CD, all the hardware drivers from the manufacturers website, and a good chunk of time to do a manual reinstall of windows.
2007-06-16 21:19:12 · answer #1 · answered by stu_the_kilted_scot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you or the person who originally bought the laptop has the Windows XP CD that came with the laptop then just put that in and install Windows.
2007-06-17 04:17:24 · answer #2 · answered by David 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is it an HP? if so hitting f11 during the beggining of bootup will bring up the restore "feature" of the harddrive to reinstall windows.
Otherwise you need to either find the restore disk for it or obtain a windows disk.
2007-06-17 04:33:57 · answer #3 · answered by foiz5000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok did he give you the recovery disk for it? if he did then you can use that and reformat the drive on it.
If you go into safe mode. (by starting the computer and keep pressing the F8 key until you get a window with the option to go into safe mode) from there you go to User Accounts and reset the administrator's password .
2007-06-17 04:18:52 · answer #4 · answered by Pyria 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well you can reinstall the operating system, it will remove all kind of password issue. but first format the complete Hard disk along with all partitions in it (laptop hdd ofcourse).
Enjoy!
2007-06-17 04:17:45 · answer #5 · answered by MSB Arts 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you need to reformat your laptop.
you may need a windows cd.
drivers for your video card, motherboard, and sound.
installer like you fav software and updates.
first if your family member might want to back up the file ask em so. after having a back up its time to rip all the data.
insert windows xp cd and restart. it will boot from cd and install windows xp. after installing xp, insert the driver cd install necessary software like nvidia for video card and the like. then install you fav software and ready to go.
the above process approximately takes 2hrs.
2007-06-17 04:21:35 · answer #6 · answered by jptan6 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should have a restore cd. If not download it from the manufacturer.
2007-06-17 04:16:53 · answer #7 · answered by Bobtastic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try a system restore. You do not have to format....take a look here as well...http://forums.majorgeeks.com/index.php?
2007-06-17 05:06:09 · answer #8 · answered by Firemedic M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋