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    NEED HELP TO get around SafeGurad Easy

    Discussion in 'HP' started by kuklinsky, Jun 11, 2008.

  1. kuklinsky

    kuklinsky Newbie

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    HI,
    I bought a HP tc4200 from a police auction and later found out it had SafeGuard Easy v4.11 on it. I don't have the username or password. I am not sure what i can do to get around this. Is there any specific button i can press to go to the bios settings before the SafeGuard Login screen comes up. Then change to boot device to be the CD rom drive. Then boot from a Windows CD and format the drive and reinstall the operating system.
    Also since this tablet laptop does not have an optical drive if i plug in a USB CD drive will that be able to boot from the CD?
    Is there any other way to get around this problem or do i just resign myself to throwing away the laptop.
    Any advice is much appreciated.
    Thanks.
     
    kuklinsky, Jun 11, 2008
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  2. The_Observer

    The_Observer 9262 is the best:)

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    It's not allowed to talk of such things in here by MODS.You can bring it back to the police station or a computer repair shop.
     
    The_Observer, Jun 11, 2008
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  3. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Translation: You stole the tc4200 and now want to crack the password.

    Sorry, but we get enough spammers asking about that...
     
    Greg, Jun 11, 2008
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