How to get into NT4.

[wtfover]

[COLOR=royalblue][B] My company got som computers from who knows where! Anyhow, I have been tasked with getting them up and running and ready for networking as soon as our sitch arives. Problem 1- The puters that work have nt4 on them and I have know idea how to get around it. I have tried "administrator" with null password and with administrator as the password. It has two other network domains on it and of course I can't get into them. All I want to do is take of NT4 and put 2000 Pro on. I don't care about what's on the hard drive cause we are wipping them out anyhow. Does anyone have a back door? PLLLEEEAAASSSEEE Help? Also where is a good site to find info on compaq MOBO. It was built in 96 with a standard pentium processor. I have anchient equipment they want me to get running with no money. it's not even my job!

[cyclone2]

If you dont care about NT or whats on the harddrives then boot with the Win2k disk, set up a clean install and it can format for you during the install or use Partition Magic .

[NDC]

Yes, since losing data on the hard disk isn't a concern for you, you can also use a Win98 boot disk and delete all the partitions. You can delete the NTFS partitions by deleting the partitions labeled as "NON-DOS". After you delete all the partitions, use a Win2k CDROM to boot the system and you will come to a screen where you can create your partitions and install Win2k...

[BBA]

I agree...if your locally installing W2K, just boot it from the CD ( if the machines are CD boot capable ).

Another way is to use a dos diskette to boot from, and run "FDISK /MBR", then "SYS C:" ( unless they are NTFS...then just blow it all away from fdisk, and still do the fdisk /mbr to remove the nt boot sector ).