W2K PRO NO ADMIN PASSWORD ... with a TWIST!

[Startovr70]

arthur92710: Can't boot to CD because that option is disabled in BIOS and I am unable to change it without the elusive supervisor P/W ... sorry for the long post, I guess I needed to vent LOL



Jelly Bean: OK, so that IS the battery inside of the yellow ... uhm ... battery condom??? But HOW do I remove it? I'm not sure where the wire attached to it goes ... it runs back under the cover and I can't seem to get access to the other end. And as far as being a female ... not sure if that's why they told you that OR if that's why it worked ... but either way YOU WON!

[Startovr70]

My plan is to wipe the drive and start from scratch ... loading XP Home but to be 100% honest with ya I'd load Win 3.1 at this point LOL I'd just be happy to load SOMETHING!

[Jelly Bean]

Yes I belive it is the BIOS battery.look at the little bag and see if it has any type of flap that could be opend but i dont think it has.get a tourch and have a look were the wire goes as on myne its only a short wire with a tiny push in connector.
I do not recommend taking the laptop apart any more ive done it and they are a pain to put back together.

Ok you cannot install home over pro.but there is away out of it.you can bye external cases to turn inturnal laptop hard drives into a USB connected hard drive,if you do this you can format the hard drive as a slave while connected to another pc and wipe the win 2000 off it and replace in laptop and reformat.But try to get the battery out?

[00110111]

Hmm, try flashing the BIOS, idk whether this can be done with a password, but it's worth a shot. if not, boot into safe mode with command prompt, create new user from there, with the "net user [username] [password] /add" command, then try adding it to the administrator group with the "net localgroup administrators [username] /add" command.

EDIT: jellybean is onto something there, i don't know if the password would be reset by removing the cmos battery, but that's also worth a shot