Re: [Thinkpad] Generic Administrator Password

Bruce is correct:

"To do a repair from the repair console, you need the admin password. But
the
ThinkPad pre-load of XP does not seem to have one. So, as far as I have been
able to research, it is impossible to repair an IBM load from the console.
His question was NOT about a "missing" password."

George Colgrove's post is generally correct, but not with Thinkpads T-23,
T-30, X-series, or T-4x series.

There are various repair procedures you can run on other laptops and
desktops by booting to software or Windows XPP in Administrator mode. I
haven't found a modern Thinkpad that will allow this because it asks for a
password when none has been entered.

I assume there is one, as the old EZServe guys told me there was... but
would not provide it...

I have books of tech shop passwords, but none of them work on Thinkpad R, X,
or T-series.

I assume somebody had figgered out what works and posted it on line
somewhere, but I have yet to discover it.

Thanks, Bruce.

Ray Bay
________

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tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before.

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Received on Wed Apr 9 12:23:49 2008