unknown password

Try using the Administrator account with no password. It might work and then you can delete the old user and set up a new one.

Mark

Because this is a laptop Joseph Moores answer may work better for you. And less cost effective but if that doesn't work you can buy an adapter and try it this way. Well Try to first boot into dos, if you can't pull the hard drive and make it a slavein another system. What you want to do is rename the C:\Documents and Settings folder. Rename it to anything you want. Then start the system. Xp will notice no users are in the machine so it will create a default Admin account. Type any password because you will have to change it anyway. This will give you a virgin account with nothing but you can get into the machine with Admin rights so you can execute programs, you will just have to go to the execuatable. You will have to recreate a user profile but you can clear space and use old shortcuts.

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