Help reformating

[Xioyn]

Hey

So I am having some problems with my laptop. It was running vista then since its vista I was updating to service pack 3 I believe. When during the install it crashed. So I had to power off the laptop and now it won't start. Luckily I had put Ubuntu on it so I can still access my files. So since the holidays are here and I had a few days to fix this laptop I thought I would reformat the whole HD and just run Ubuntu on it.

So I insert the windows cd and go into the recovery mode and it asks for my admin password

I do not know my admin password and since it won't boot I can't find out my password.


I should add that Its a toshiba satellite laptop
that is a year and a half old


how do I get the password so I can reformat and remove Vista for Good

 

[Dan(DK)]

check your PM

 

[Rabid Ewoks]

For future reference if anyone would like to reset a windows password a good utility would be

Offline NT Password & Registry Editor
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/


If your unsure about resetting the password and would like to attempt to recover the password a good tool to use is

Ophcrack
http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/