My wife has a laptop from her last job and I thought I would use it as
my backup. However, the thing is nailed down with admin rights and I
acn't do anything. Even from Recovery Consule it asks for a password.
I tried to load XP over it and of course, I don't have privledges to do
that. It won't even let me load the drive for the wireless card I
installed. Help!

Boot from the Windows XP CD and "rights" do not come into play at all. Do a
clean install as opposed to repairing that which is there now.

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"David M" <dwmmlm@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1129465814.345902.56040@g43g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
> My wife has a laptop from her last job and I thought I would use it as
> my backup. However, the thing is nailed down with admin rights and I
> acn't do anything. Even from Recovery Consule it asks for a password.
> I tried to load XP over it and of course, I don't have privledges to do
> that. It won't even let me load the drive for the wireless card I
> installed. Help!
>

David M wrote:
> My wife has a laptop from her last job and I thought I would use it as
> my backup. However, the thing is nailed down with admin rights and I
> acn't do anything. Even from Recovery Consule it asks for a password.
> I tried to load XP over it and of course, I don't have privledges to
> do that. It won't even let me load the drive for the wireless card I
> installed. Help!

You don't need admin rights to use the media that comes with the laptop and
reinstall from scratch.

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chances are the disk did not go with the laptop from work.

"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> David M wrote:
>> My wife has a laptop from her last job and I thought I would use it as
>> my backup. However, the thing is nailed down with admin rights and I
>> acn't do anything. Even from Recovery Consule it asks for a password.
>> I tried to load XP over it and of course, I don't have privledges to
>> do that. It won't even let me load the drive for the wireless card I
>> installed. Help!
>
> You don't need admin rights to use the media that comes with the laptop
> and reinstall from scratch.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>

lvee wrote:
> chances are the disk did not go with the laptop from work.

Yep..
But that's not presented as fact or not.
If it was not then they need to obtain the CD or buy a new one anyway -
because sooner or later - they will likely need to reinstall. =)

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http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Yep! People forget that they may need the CD when they "acquire" a laptop
from work.

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"lvee" <notmesothere@msn.com> wrote in message
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> chances are the disk did not go with the laptop from work.
>
> "Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23LQaRXm0FHA.2072@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> David M wrote:
>>> My wife has a laptop from her last job and I thought I would use it as
>>> my backup. However, the thing is nailed down with admin rights and I
>>> acn't do anything. Even from Recovery Consule it asks for a password.
>>> I tried to load XP over it and of course, I don't have privledges to
>>> do that. It won't even let me load the drive for the wireless card I
>>> installed. Help!
>>
>> You don't need admin rights to use the media that comes with the laptop
>> and reinstall from scratch.
>>
>> --
>> Shenan Stanley
>> MS-MVP
>> --
>> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>>
>
>

Well yjey will need to reinstall if they format the drive. Though I don't see any mention of formatting in the body.

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"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@gmail.com> wrote in message news:%23WaaEPn0FHA.2076@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> lvee wrote:
>> chances are the disk did not go with the laptop from work.
>
> Yep..
> But that's not presented as fact or not.
> If it was not then they need to obtain the CD or buy a new one anyway -
> because sooner or later - they will likely need to reinstall. =)
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>

Can't get the CD to boot due to Admin issue. Recovery consule require
password (which again is a Admin password issue). If you know a way to
boot the CD please let me know. I bought a new version of XP and a
wireless card and I can't even load the drivers for the card. I'd love
to do a clean install, but I can't seem to get to the CD before it
boots to the existing XP.

Thanks

Guys... not trying to 'cheat' at anything here. I purchased perfectly
legal new version of XP to load, but simply can't get past the fact
that the Admin issue does not allow me to load software or even get
past the recovery consule (BIOS).

Per my post above, please explain how I can load my new XP version from
CD. I tried the recovery console, but that too requires a password.