Hi there. I am Mac guy who needs help saving his Windows set up.
I have Mac OS10.4 running Windows via Bootcamp on a Mac Mini. This set up using XP SP2 has been running for over 2 years without problems, though I have to admit that the Windows Partition is now tight for space with only around 430 MB left on it.
We never added an admin password and would normally enter Windows by pressing the enter key once. This has worked for years. The reason we did not want to add a password is having read about password problems with XP in the past we wanted to avoid them!
All of a sudden on bootup XP will not accept the password. I have check num lock,caps etc, but I don’t see how these can have any effect as there is not written password.
I have read in the forums here ways to reset if you have access to BIOS using the delete key, but it also appears that the Mac does not have BIOS because of its physical architecture and the delete key does not put you in BIOS.
Any thoughts? I am loathe to delete the Mac partition as Bootcamp set up on 10.4 has expired and I don’t want to buy Mac 10.5 just to run Windows!
My edition of XP Pro is genuine.
