what should I do?

[Jaxler]

Ok so here's my situation:

one day i was on a long car ride with my mac. I got bored, so I took it out and went to the system preferences to customize my macbook with a new background, screen saver, ect... I then continued to click around and found the filevault part of the system prefs. I set a pw for filevault, wrote it down then clicked on the "Turn on FileVault" button. I read the popup, and decided that I would rather turn it on when I was at home and had my macbook plugged in.

About a week or so later, i went into my system preferences and noticed that everything was locked. When i clicked on the lock icon, it asked me for the admin name and password, so i put it in, and it said that the name or password was incorrect. I tried over and over with different passwords, and none of them worked. I then got online and figured out how to change the admin password, so I did that, but when it started back up, the new password didn't work either. I then went into the accounts section of the system preferences, and noticed that I was no longer the admin of my own macbook. I frantically searched online for possible solutions, and came across something that made me decide to set a firmware password (I now realize this was a horrible mistake). I have no idea how to disable the firmware password, or how to reset my macbook back to default, since the admin password doesn't work.

where should I go from here?

 

[chscag]

Using a firmware password is actually a good thing in the event your machine is stolen, however, it can be a real problem if you should forget it.

See this thread on how to reset or remove the firmware password:

http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-59357.html

To reset the admin password see this article by "Ask Dave":

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_reset_my_mac_os_x_admin_root_password.html

Regards.

 

[Jaxler]

Using a firmware password is actually a good thing in the event your machine is stolen, however, it can be a real problem if you should forget it.

See this thread on how to reset or remove the firmware password:

http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-59357.html

To reset the admin password see this article by "Ask Dave":

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_reset_my_mac_os_x_admin_root_password.html

Regards.

thanks for the advice, but you misunderstood what i said... my admin name and password DOES NOT work. I cannot install anything.

 

[Jaxler]

bump.

anyone? all suggestions are welcome

 

[dtravis7]

Are you sure you are using the right password for the main account you set up when you got your machine?

 

[Jaxler]

Are you sure you are using the right password for the main account you set up when you got your machine?

yes, that's the only account i've ever made. And when I go into the account manager it says that I do not have administrative rights.