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Matt Smith
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      01-11-2004
I have an old Compaq laptop PII with NT4 on it, I want to put Win98se on it & get rid of NT, its a cheap way for a newbie to learn computer use.
But it seems to need Admin rights & we have no password for it, anyone know how I can accomplish this?

 
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      01-11-2004
Matt Smith wrote:

> I have an old Compaq laptop PII with NT4 on it, I want to put Win98se on
> it & get rid of NT, its a cheap way for a newbie to learn computer use.
> But it seems to need Admin rights & we have no password for it, anyone
> know how I can accomplish this?



If you don't want NT just reformat the drive.
 
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      01-11-2004
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 20:13:30 +1300, Barg wrote:

> Matt Smith wrote:
>
>> I have an old Compaq laptop PII with NT4 on it, I want to put Win98se on
>> it & get rid of NT, its a cheap way for a newbie to learn computer use.
>> But it seems to need Admin rights & we have no password for it, anyone
>> know how I can accomplish this?

>
>
> If you don't want NT just reformat the drive.


He'll have to reformat in any case - WIN98 cannot read the NT file system
- it only reads the FAT16 and FAT32 systems.

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      01-11-2004
Lennier <> wrote in
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> He'll have to reformat in any case - WIN98 cannot read the NT file
> system - it only reads the FAT16 and FAT32 systems.
>


Just for interest-

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr...tfswin98.shtml

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      01-12-2004
Matt Smith allegedly said:

> I have an old Compaq laptop PII with NT4 on it, I want to put Win98se on
> it & get rid of NT, its a cheap way for a newbie to learn computer use.
> But it seems to need Admin rights & we have no password for it, anyone
> know how I can accomplish this?


Boot some NT4 or WinXP install disks / CD and re-partition the drive.

A bootable Linux install CD should also allow you to wipe the disk....

You can't use NTFS under Win98SE anyway.....far as I know.

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