Please help..!! ** Password Problem**

[philhillan]

Hi there guys my name is Phil and have recently just lost my Father, 60 it was very sudden and unexpected. Amongst his possesions I discovered his Laptop an Acer Aspire 5315 using Vista Home Basic and was going to make sure it was working and pass it to my daughter so she can use it instead of pestering me for mine, she is only 12 and was going to buy her one but with what has recently happened and with the Acer laptop in perfect condition she may as well use that for now. Now the problem is my Father has a vista password on it for the life of me I have no idea wot he would of used, now I uderstand about these password recovery CD's you can create so I tried that, now the only thing with this is in the bios he has set a bloddy password for that too and the laptop boots from the hard drive and does not boot from the disc haha, typical of him he always had to fiddle about with everything. Could anyone please give me some advise on how I can resolve this issue.. Thank You - Phil

 

[brummyfan]

Hi Phil,
Sorry to hear about your father, best thing is, just forget about the Password and get a fresh copy of another OS and give it to your little girl. I'm sorry if I sound so blunt.

 

[philhillan]

Thanks and thats probebly what I will do but the boot option is currently set to boot from hard drive and not CD/DVD therefore I cant get into bios because of the password I need to get in or find another to change the setting to boot the laptop from a disc so I can re-wipe it and personalise it for my daughter. I hope you can help been searching since 2pm this afternoon lol
Phil