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I'm just a simple Mac Geek. Your crazy world of Batch Files and Safe Modes confuses and bewilders me.
I am reanimating an aging winbox for use in a home automation application. I've got all the parts back together, but unfortunately the last time I started this machine up was probably in late 2000, and I can't for the life of me remember what cryptic-ass password I was using back then. Is there a way for me to start up Win2K without this, and or reset it or something. There are some saved games on there that I'd prefer to keep so formatting the HD would be a last resort. Teach me wise and brave masters of pee-seeing. Much obliged.
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That's pretty funny. Thanks for turning me onto the (ahem) heavy industries product, Cartman. I'll give this a go.
If anyone else has any other suggestions, I'd love to hear 'em.
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We appreciate your concern. It is noted and stupid.
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If required you can safely reinstall 2k over itself.. it should prompt you for a new Administrator password during the installation. You shouldn't loose any of your data or installed programs.
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You'll have to talk slower. I'm a Mac user, remember. I'm am not tEh sMaxX0r, I do not get the powerup. I'm having a tough time hacking it, so I'll have to take a crack at the reinstall method. I've got the Win2K Pro install CD. How do I convince the system to reinstall itself? Is this something I'd do from DOS mode? Do I need to write a Batch file or something?
VP: I've also made some rather large and indulgent Total Annihilation maps that I'd like to get back, and I doubt those would fit on a floppy.
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Well, I've never installed Win2k over Win2k, but I suspect you would only need to boot from the CD to get into the installation program. Get into the BIOS settings (hit Del or F1 or whatever you need to hit during startup) and change the boot order so the CD drive comes before the hard drive. Then leave the CD in and reboot.
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Cartman
just made by the Presbyterian Church
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"Then leave the CD in and reboot."
This will only work if the CD itself is bootable.
If it isn't, back to square one. Get yourself a 2K bootdisk here, then manually run the installation (x:\i386\winnt.exe, where x is the letter assigned to your cdrom drive) from DOS.
BTW: Total Annihilation fan, eh? Impressive... most impressive. Up for a multiplayer battle sometime?
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Balaam Xumucane: Use the boot disk to get into dos, and make sure you've enabled the cd support (you should get an option for that). Then change drives to your cd drive (whichever letter that is) and run the setup file. However if its being a pain in the arse you may get the message: "this program does not run in ms-dos mode" or somesuch.
Before any of us blather on more, do you know the basic dos commands?
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