Cant connect

[Sharlene Allen]

i have an ancient laptop from my mother, a Toshiba satellite pro 446CDX.. she cant remember the password she used to get oneline with and locked it to where unless you have the password you cant access internet at all... What can i do? Its running windows 98 and i have no software for it except a windows 98 upgrade disc she found... its also missing a eutils.dll, the main problem is im disabled on a very limited budget so i cant just scrap the laptop and buy a new one ...

sincerely,
shar

[xpuser357]

You say you have a lap top with 98?? I have placed a bootable cd in the cd rom drive and accessed the operating system. unless it is the bios asking for password. I am not sure if you can take out battery and let it reset the bios,
that old it maybe soldered in.:)

[Sharlene Allen]

It was my mothers old laptop and she locked it with a password so noone can connect to the internet without and shes forgotten the password so she bought a new laptop... i went and totally screwed it up when i read a post about formatting it to i went into DOS mode and typed in C:format now its wanting a system disc and i dont know what to do

[Sharlene Allen]

ok i totally screwed up now... on another thread it was saying to go to DOS mode and format the c: drive and i did, now its telling me i need a system disc... Any ideas what i need to do or where to find a system disc? HELP PLEASE??????

[NooNoo]

The system disk is your 98 upgrade disk. But that will only install if you have the software you upgraded from - probably windows 95 or 3.1 on diskettes. Does the laptop have a cd rom drive?

[Sharlene Allen]

yes i do have a CD rom but the only disc i have is the 98 upgrade. its a removeable CDROM and i have a removeable a:drve i think it is but she didnt know where all the discs went that came with it

[NooNoo]

look at the bottom of the laptop - is there a label which gives you the licence number for windows? If so, which windows?

[Sharlene Allen]

it doesnt say, it has serial number, part number and model number on it but no windows number or anything

[Sharlene Allen]

i believe it had windows95 on it when she got it then upgraded it , she bought it back in 98