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i have a dell c400 and i set a password on it but then i forgot it i cant get into my computer and i need help to get into it anyone know?
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is this a BIOS password? If so, u may be able to reset it by removing the lithum battery on the motherboard (careful!) and put it back in. ol tip i dunno if it will work for this. Or you reflash the bios.
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Resetting CMOS by removing the CMOS battery, waiting a while, then replacing it should do the trick if it's a BIOS password. Make sure you shut the system down and switch off at the wall outlet before fiddling about inside the case.
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nah its the windows password.. like i turn on the computer then it turns on fine and everything but when windows open i have to put in the password.. yeahh.. i forgot that.. anyway i can get in?
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Boot into 'Safe mode' and log in as 'Administrator'.
Copy the data files across to somewhere else, delete the user account, and then create a new one, making sure you keep a record of any password this time. (If you've enabled "Make my folders and files personal" or whatever the option is, you might be out of luck
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Fair dinkum, I reckon a lot of the time people just use the password feature because it's there! If it's not important enough to keep a record of the password, then why set one?
Copy the data files across to somewhere else, delete the user account, and then create a new one, making sure you keep a record of any password this time. (If you've enabled "Make my folders and files personal" or whatever the option is, you might be out of luck
)Fair dinkum, I reckon a lot of the time people just use the password feature because it's there! If it's not important enough to keep a record of the password, then why set one?
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the thing is.. all i want to do is format my computer.. haha thats about it..
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If you want to reformat your system drive, you won't be able to do that when booted into the Windows installation on your drive anyway- you'll need to boot from a Windows install CD and you will then be able to choose to reformat your drive as part of the installation process.
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the thing is.. the laptop doesnt come with floppy or CD-ROM i have this external DVD burner (usb) and i plugged it in.. and it cant read it.. other than buyin the thing that comes wit it any othe way i can do it?
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No CD or floppy drive?? Unless you can get the laptop to boot from that DVD drive you're kind of stuck.
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Originally Posted by aaronN42
the thing is.. the laptop doesnt come with floppy or CD-ROM i have this external DVD burner (usb) and i plugged it in.. and it cant read it.. other than buyin the thing that comes wit it any othe way i can do it?
You should be able to boot off the usb DVD burner, you should only have to set it up in bios, there is a bootable linux floppy, that you can burn to a bootable cd, that works well to set the password to nothing, or if you have the access or money ERD commander is a good program also.
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