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by daz'n'ash 1 view

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I have a computer given to me that is locked by username and password which neither the person who gave it to me or myself knows. How can I access Windows or how can I bypass the logon without losong any data on the hard drive?

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by oh smeg

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by older mycroft

How in hell do you know there is [b]ANY[/b] data on the hard drive? ;)

by .martin.

I was sorta bored so I was watching http://live.lmgtfy.com/ (WARNING: some content may disturb or offend people, I take no responsibility for this). and guess what I saw, yes lots of dirty stuff, but I also saw my above link...

my brain just exploded :p

by snuffy09

if the computer was given to you who cares if the data is lost?

if it used to be owned by somebody else i would want to "zero" the HD and start over anyways. the avg user tends to horde a lot of crap on their pc.

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