Hi, I'll give it a shot. After starting from the install dvd and after starting VO. Get past the keyboard and language screens. This is just before the agree screen. VO M and right arrow over to utilities and then go to Reset Password. and follow the prompts. HTH. Dan
On Jul 5, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Larry Wanger wrote: > > ÎHi, > > I'm having a problem with logging in to my Macbook Pro and hope > someone can offer some help. I'll try to be concise here but this is a > bit of a long story. > > 1. For some reason when I turned on my Macbook last week it would not > boot up. I hear the startup sound and the apple logo appears on screen > but it won't go further. > 2. After doing some reading it appeared that the best course of action > was to insert the OSX Leopard disk and re-install the OS but not to > delete the existing contents of the drive. > 3. I inserted the Mac OSX installation disk, turned off the machine > and re-started while holding down the C key. > 4. The OSX installation began and I was able to re-install everything. > 5. The machine re-started after the installation and took mee to the > usual log-in screen. The screen shows me as the admin user, has my > picture and my name and asks for the password for the account. This is > the only account on the machine and I am obviously the admin. > 6. I typed in the password that I had before the system had these > problems and it would not accept it. I had it reveal the password hint > which is exactly the same as previous. I absolutely do remember the > password and have used the same one for almost a year now with no > problems. I conclude the account still exists because my user account > is still showing at log-in. > > I've tried a couple of solutions here, the most promising seemed to be > that you could launch the OSX installation disk again and get to a > utilities option rather than installing anything. However, I can't > locate a utilities button anywhere. > > Has this happened to anyone and do you have any suggestions about how > to deal with this. Unfortunately, I have some but not all of the > contents of this drive backed-up and would seriously rather not end up > having to format it. > > Thanks for any help you can offer. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
