So today I got a five dollar computer at a rummage sale...
Well the previous owners didn't get rid of their old stuff, and they have a password on their account... I can't get into the darn thing. I've booted into damn small linux, but that isn't really helping as I have no idea where the passwords would be located, nor the encryption they would have and how to extract said passwords, or reinstall windows
I don't have any CDs big enough for a distro like ubuntu, or I would just install that. I would also instal from a USB drive, but the mobo is too old to support loading from flash drive believe it or not...
so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
especially if you know of any small desktop linux distros I could use to update drivers and update the mobo with...
Could use some help
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JaxDragon
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Re: Could use some help
I dunno. Puppy linux maybe?
Re: Could use some help
That's exactly what I just did :D
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Re: Could use some help
Why don't you simply wipe it? If you really want the data off it first, then you connect its hard drive to another computer or boot from CD/USB and copy everything to removable media.
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Re: Could use some help
He was saying he didn't know how..Live-Dimension wrote:Why don't you simply wipe it? If you really want the data off it first, then you connect its hard drive to another computer or boot from CD/USB and copy everything to removable media.
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There are both CD and DVD releases of Ubuntu free to download.eatcomics wrote:I don't have any CDs big enough for a distro like ubuntu, or I would just install that.
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Re: Could use some help
And if you can't boot puppy from flash drive, there's a utility called wakepup which lets you boot from the flash drive via a floppy disk. 
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Re: Could use some help
Although if you have a floppy drive, your chances of having a USB port are greatly reduced.Ginto8 wrote:And if you can't boot puppy from flash drive, there's a utility called wakepup which lets you boot from the flash drive via a floppy disk.
@eatcomics: so is everything set up?
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Re: Could use some help
Its all good, I just wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with it but I got everything I needed set up so yeah... Currently I have puppy installed, but it doesn't want to connect to the internet, but I'll get it all.