Re: cannot boot from cd or access bios
- From: "1D10T" <beggar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:07:18 -0500
<lspracklen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I bought a used laptop off of ebay and the stupid boob who owned it
put XP Pro on it and forgot the bios password. I have taken the laptop
apart and was not able to find the RTC battery or any jumper to reset.
impossible to get the bios password. It came with the recovery cd andFrom everything I've researched about this laptop it is nearly
a license for XP Home. XP Pro keeps asking for a license key and the
one for XP Home won't work. If I can somehow delete XP Pro I can boot
from the recovery CD and reload the factory software. Is there anyway
I can get XP Pro to delete itself? I can't get a DOS prompt or boot
from anything but the harddisk. I need some kind of software utility
that can do this or target specific windows files to delete which
would trick the bios to bypass the harddisk and boot from the CD. Does
anyone know of what specific files the BIOS looks for to load XP Pro
from the harddisk?
I had the same problem. Go into setup - press 'delete' or F8, or whatever it
requires and change the boot order to CD first. Put the XP Home disk in the
drive, power off and restart. It will then load XP.
.
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