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by rpalfery

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The company i worked for recently went out of business.
I have the laptop from the company which is now mine. Long Story.

here's my problem:

In short i can logon w' my username/pw but i am not an admin. Also, there is more than one domain that i want to remove. No access to domain.

So, I can't change anything, install anything.
I'll assume that there is also a domain admin acct. as well?

Is there anything i can do short of wiping out the drive and re-installing XP? Can i even do that?? I do not have the original disk so I'll need to buy that.

Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.

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by alfa11

Can you logon with the local machine user? If you cannot do this and want to back up the info you have there you should get a Windows PE or some sort of Windows live CD with a burning application built in and record a CD with the files you need.
Then you can boot with a Windows XP CD and reinstall the Operating System.

by rpalfery

thanks for your reply howeverthis doesn't really offer me a solution for my problem.

1. I do not have an XP disk.
2. I am not the admin.
3. there is more than one domain listed.
4. Local machine is also listed, but cannot logon to it.
5.Can only logon to one of the domains listed. I'm guessing this is being done from cache??
6. Is formatting the drive my only option?
Can i format the drive with my current account? I don't think so, is resetting the admin password the answer?? If so, how do i accomplish this in XP Pro??

I want to be able to use this as a 'new" system. Saving files i no longer use is not a priority.

by shiney69rr

account or password, you are going to have to wipe out that machine. Bummer

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