My aging memory appears to have gotten me into a mess. I am trying to put a T42 (XP Pro SP3) that has been unused by one family member (for a couple of years) into service for another family member. It runs extremely slowly, and I want to have my son reformat and reinstall to start clean. I get to the screen to access Rescue and Recovery during boot, but can't remember the password to access this section. I don't recall setting one, but perhaps it grabbed it from somewhere else? I can log in to the T42 as administrator using the password set long ago, but that password doesn't work for the recovery password screen.
The goal is to generate a recovery CD so he can do the reinstall. Any hints as to the best way(s) to proceed? Failing getting the recovery CD generated, what is the best way to clean up the machine to make it run better? The user files are so old that they aren't worth keeping, but it might be nice not to have to reinstall all the apps. Thanks for whatever help you can give this embarrassed old ThinkPad user. -- Erich _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
