On Apr 10, 2010, at 4:50 PM, Papa Bear wrote:
Just bought a Wallstreet at an auction and it boots up to a password. Any easy way to remove the password??
If it's OS X, boot any installer CD and use "Reset Password" in the menu bar.
If it's OS 9, boot any bootable system and navigate to System Folder>Preferences folder and delete the "Multiple Users Preferences" file. Restart and there should be no password required. This can be very difficult to do if you don't have a bootable external System. On newer Macs with Target Disk Mode booting this would be a simple operation, but on a Wallstreet this would be much more difficult. If you don't have a bootable SCSI external HD this may be too difficult to do, and you're better off starting over with a clean installation.
Or to wipe the hd and install new OS??
Always nice to start with a clean OS.
Have OS9 avaiable on Cd but not sure if CD works??
Why wouldn't it "work"?
Yet??
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