A old friend brought me his laptop (Acer Travelmate 2310) When you try to boot it to windows you get the following error message [Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM]. He only use's the computer for email and surfing the web so we decided to do a clean install. Problem is I couldn't figure out how to access the installation files on the hard drive, so I decided to do an install using my Windows CD and then install the drivers from the website. But to do that I had to go into the BIOS to tell it to boot from the CD-Rom first, only to find that it was password protected, and he doesn't have a clue as to what it is. (he got it second hand a while ago) So I went to the web and found 4 what they called "back door passwords" (PHOENIX, phoenix, BIOS, and bios) but they didn't work. Could someone tell me if there is an easy solution to my problem.
Thanks in advance for any help.