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shonkyboy
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Sorry if this is a regular problem - i have spent all night searching the internet and tried various things to no avail:
here goes anyway;
I have a eMac that i recently bought from an auction - yes - a REAL auction in and auction room! . The disks were not with it and it seems that the admin password is locked down and i have no way of knowing it.
Someone i know had a tiger disk and i thought that i could use this to reset the password. Trouble is that when i try to start the install procedure so i can get to the reset password bit, - when i hit restart, it says "Type in an administrators name and password to make changes to Install Mac OSX" - obviously, i do not have these and i have no way of ever getting them - please could someone advise me how to get round this , or maybe just re-install the whole operating system like you can do in Windows?
I can get a copy of panther for about £30 - would this be the best approach and how do i get by all that adminstrator stuff? Thanks in advance.
here goes anyway;
I have a eMac that i recently bought from an auction - yes - a REAL auction in and auction room! . The disks were not with it and it seems that the admin password is locked down and i have no way of knowing it.
Someone i know had a tiger disk and i thought that i could use this to reset the password. Trouble is that when i try to start the install procedure so i can get to the reset password bit, - when i hit restart, it says "Type in an administrators name and password to make changes to Install Mac OSX" - obviously, i do not have these and i have no way of ever getting them - please could someone advise me how to get round this , or maybe just re-install the whole operating system like you can do in Windows?
I can get a copy of panther for about £30 - would this be the best approach and how do i get by all that adminstrator stuff? Thanks in advance.