Administrator Password and Recovery install

[icthus13]

So I'm trying to fix my friend's Dell Inspiron 1100 lappy, and this thing has MAJOR problems. So I'm just going to do a repair install of windows (XP pro). All is well and good, until it asks for the Administrator password. She didn't put it on there and has no idea what it is, so it must be a Dell password. Anyone know what this could be or a way around it? Thanks a lot!

 

[M11]

Just reset it

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

# This is a utility to (re)set the password of any user that has a valid (local) account on your NT system, by modifying the crypted password in the registrys SAM file.
# You do not need to know the old password to set a new one.
# It works offline, that is, you have to shutdown your computer and boot off a floppydisk or CD. The bootdisk includes stuff to access NTFS partitions and scripts to glue the whole thing together.
# Works with syskey (no need to turn it off, but you can if you have lost the key)
# Will detect and offer to unlock locked or disabled out user accounts!
# It is also an almost fully functional registry editor!

 

[icthus13]

Thank you sir.