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Question

Dell Vostro 1500 boot from cd

Apr 21, 2013 11:01AM PDT

I lost my admin password on my Dell Vostro 1500 running Vista.

I had a friend burn a cd of Ophcrack and I am trying to start up from the cd.

The cd is in, but restarting only takes me to the usual login screen, it does not see the Ophcrack cd.

Apparently this might be solved by changing the boot order? Bios? I am learning as I go.

I cannot get to the setup in order to change the boot order. I Have tried restarting holding down F2, Del, FN+F1.. any suggestions!?!

I have tried every password I can think of, nothing works to get into the Admin side. If Ophcrack doesn't work, what do I have to try next??

Thanks for your help. Please speak slowly. I am not PC literate!

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Clarification Request
Tell me what's on the CD?
Apr 21, 2013 11:44AM PDT

It sounds as if the boot CD was made incorrectly. But I can't check it so you have to share more.

And why not NTPASSWD which is free too?
Bob

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on the cd
Apr 21, 2013 12:23PM PDT

is Ophcrack Live, burned for me by a friend who i think knows what he's doing, but maybe it didn't burn correctly?

Not familiar with NTPASSWD, what is that?

I am willing to try whatever, in order to get into the admin side and reset the password

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I'd like to double check the burn.
Apr 21, 2013 12:38PM PDT

I don't offer how to burn it as I must read it from you. It sounds like another bad burn so let's skip all the back and forth for a moment.

NTPASSWD is another password reset that takes less than 2 minutes here and something I've used for about a decade. Found with google.
Bob