hello, someone has given us ( the local computer nerds) a sweet little mini-tower, unwanted by its original owner nor by the recipient, who now uses a Mac. The machine is unusual in that it is powered by a lap-top battery - never come across that before - and of course we did not get given the charger.
We rootled around in our pile of Dell chargers (this machine is HP) and found one that fits and with the right polarity, plugged it in and the machine (an i-3) has booted up - but now we are stuck. It is either Windows 8 or 8.1 but we don't know the password or key. We would like to pass it on with the OS clean but intact. What options do we have please, if any? I do recall downloading an 8.1 upgrade onto someone's Win 8 laptop that was not running as it ought a while back, but I must have been in the advanced options screen to do that....
... we have decided the best way forward is to take HD out, put it in Icy Box, clean all user stuff off with BCWipe, stick it back in and see what happens then. As there should be no user account, it might let us in, and if it don't work we might give Linux a go ... oh.. have just found a windows 8.1 in my box of DVD's, prob an ISO I created for someone else and never used.. hmm
We rootled around in our pile of Dell chargers (this machine is HP) and found one that fits and with the right polarity, plugged it in and the machine (an i-3) has booted up - but now we are stuck. It is either Windows 8 or 8.1 but we don't know the password or key. We would like to pass it on with the OS clean but intact. What options do we have please, if any? I do recall downloading an 8.1 upgrade onto someone's Win 8 laptop that was not running as it ought a while back, but I must have been in the advanced options screen to do that....
... we have decided the best way forward is to take HD out, put it in Icy Box, clean all user stuff off with BCWipe, stick it back in and see what happens then. As there should be no user account, it might let us in, and if it don't work we might give Linux a go ... oh.. have just found a windows 8.1 in my box of DVD's, prob an ISO I created for someone else and never used.. hmm
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My Computer
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