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Oh dear!

You need to look up how to get inside the machine on the 'net. They are all different. You will need the *exact* model number - not just a vague name!

Then you will need a 2 1/2" adaptor to be able to put it on a PC. Or one of the bare USB adaptors.

Harry.

 

yep, thats the baby!

 

oh diddly doooo!

now this is a right embarassment , what should i say to the dude whogave me his computer just to take off his spyware?

 

only one way to find out - and i think it may have had 2 partitiontions - fingers crossed!

 

how do i access command? i just tired safe mode with command prompt and still get the username + password log on

 

For everyone

 

There is a moral to the story here.

Don't un-join a computer from a domain, where incidentally the user/administrator account details are held on the domain controller in Active directory. Unless you know the local user/administrator log-on credentials which are held locally in the SAM (security account manager). The two passwords may be different as in this case

If you intend to support/fix computers for a living then I would recommend that you arm yourself with a few tools to make the job easier.

1) A USB HDD cradle as mentioned by Gav in another thread. This makes it a piece of cake to whip the HDD out of the problem PC and access it as a removable disk in a working computer.

2) A USB CD ROM drive (would be a blessing in this case).

3) A USB Floppy

You can always temporarily remove the CD ROM/Floppy from your own PC so that you can install the password recovery software on the locked out PC.

 

but how? where the ide connector gonna connector to on the laptop?

 

there is always option 3 - run away and never to be seen again and leave a simply IOU note!

 

just bookmarkig this here for easy access - you dont mind do ya Gav?

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-45817

it time for me to go to bed, wake up tomorrow and hope the laptop disappeared into the never never land...

anyway,

Cheers everyone for your help, i might just come back and quiz ya some more...

 

No worries here, m8

 

Well sorry CM but I assumed you would have a PC or two lying around as you are studying for the A+

 

yeah i have a spare pc. but im lost by what you meant.

 

Try this: http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=305