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is it me or is it that, you can fix peoples problems out easily, but when its someone close to you, its just seems a very difficult task... anyway, any more suggestions?

 

actually, im kinda lost now, cuz its a 12 port hub, and the laptop is connected to it, so do still want me to disconnect + reconnect?

 

Can't you scab a working CDROM from somewhere and boot from a live disk?

 

aint got a laptop mate to tax one out of.

 

come on people - dont fall as sleep on me - virtual beers are on grabs!

 

nah mate - kinda confused as to what you meant...

actually, im kinda lost now, cuz its a 12 port hub, and the laptop is connected to it, so do still want me to disconnect + reconnect?

 

Hm - are you saying that you can't log onto the admin account on the local machine? Or that there isn't one?

If there are *only* domain logins on the machine, and no local then the only thing you can do is break in with something like ERD commander. There are free equivalents of that on the 'net.

However - using these utils may break his contract with his company.

Generaly when a company issues a locked-down machine breaking into it is grounds for dismissal. So check first!

Harry.

 

done that and waited and eventually got "the network path was not found"...

its assigned by DHCP, i tried pinging 192.168.254.242 and got
request timed out...

tracert from 5 gets request timed out, (1 - 4 is ok) btw: still hopping

Code:

 
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\ch33ks>ping 192.254.254.242

Pinging 192.254.254.242 with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 192.254.254.242:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

C:\Documents and Settings\ch33ks>tracert 192.254.254.242

Tracing route to 192.254.254.242 over a maximum of 30 hops

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.254.254
  2    67 ms    23 ms    23 ms  ddd.ddsde.uk.easynet.net [xx.xxx.xx.xx]
  3    20 ms    17 ms    17 ms  82.111.100.65
  4    15 ms    17 ms    17 ms  82.110.134.1
  5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  8     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 16     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 17     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 18     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 19     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 20     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 21     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 22     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 23     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 24     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 25     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 26     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 27     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 28     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 29     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 30     *        *        *     Request timed out.

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\ch33ks>

 

basically can not login in at all, i changed it from DOMAIN -> WORKGROUP and since then could not get back in, as the option dropdown does not come up.

i would of tried using ERD as previously suggested, but the CD Rom is not working and i have no laptop to nick one out of...

company policy - they gave him this laptop some years ago, this now belongs to him and has got nothing to do with the company... i only mentioned the company as it was theirs before...

 

pc-> 192.168.254.2
laptop ->192.168.254.242

the only thing i can think of is the laptoip has sp2 firewall enabled.

 

even if i can retrieve the data off his hdd would be good enough - but his bloody cdrom done work, and its NTFS

 

One trick to get the W2k style login is to press Ctrl-Alt-Del *twice* at the name selection screen.

Note - if the Domain logins have gone, and you have no local login then you have no option but to use the break-in system AFAIK.

If it *really * has been converted to Workgroup, and the drive has been shared - then you will be able to access stuff - but that is a long chance!

What is wrong with the CDROM? And why not use a USB CDROM?

You may now need to mount the drive on another machine, copy all the data off, fix the CDROM, then use the restore CDs to put the machine back to original.

Harry.

 

tried the double login and

cdrom seems to be dead, nothing boots from it, and the dude said that he thinking of buying one for it, and nope haven't got a USB one...

and how hard is this mounting stuff as i have never opened a laptop before