re: windows 2000 professional Saturday, February 15, 2003 at 8:23 pm Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by James Oakey (188 messages posted) When booting from the XP CD there should be an option to format the harddrive before you install. Do the format, then the XP install, and you should have a working system. On Saturday, February 15, 2003 at 6:56 pm, rav wrote: >hi! >i have win 2000 professional on my ibm netvista p3 >that i bought from a used comp store >i dont have the user id and pswd so i cant login. >when i power it on, it asks me for user id and password >i tried inserting a win XP cd and started the computer hoping the cd will run and >install XP and the computer will not ask for the user info. but it did not work and >i am back to sq1. >how can i get into the computer or how can i replace the win 2000 professional with >an XP or 98 so that the comp works >thx Written in response to: windows 2000 professional (rav: Saturday, February 15, 2003 at 6:56 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] windows 2000 professional (rav: Sat, Feb 15, 2003, 6:56 pm) re: windows 2000 professional (James Oakey: Sat, Feb 15, 2003, 8:23 pm) re: windows 2000 professional (Deb: Sat, Feb 15, 2003, 11:07 pm) re: windows 2000 professional (Betty: Sun, Feb 16, 2003, 1:31 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum