[BNM] Locked out of my MacBook pro

[Joe Aliferis]

ah

what OS is it

10.4 Tiger
10.5 Leopard

Joe

> Thanks, It looks simple but I don't have the OS boot disk :o(
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
> [mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Joe Aliferis
> Sent: 11 December 2008 14:30
> To: Brighton New Media
> Subject: Re: [BNM] Locked out of my MacBook pro
>
> I believe that, using the OS boot disk, there is a method of editing the 
> administrators password
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> see this article
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> http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_reset_my_mac_os_x_admin_root_password.
> html
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> Joe
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>> Hi, just bought a macbook off Ebay which came with a Norwegian keyboard
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> and
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>> no media , fired her up, got the welcome screen for Leopard, I went though
>> some settings like British keyboard, network, my details, username and
>> password blah blah. Once all done I hit continue and it asked me to log
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> in.
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>> Now it won’t recognise my username / password (I use a complex one but the
>> same one mostly) and as I had to type it twice to confirm it in the set up
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> I
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>> find it hard to believe I would have typed it wrong twice. I have tried
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> all
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>> variations I can think of but no joy.
>> The only thing I could think was that the keyboard layout was Norwegian
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> when
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>> I entered the password and once setup was complete the keyboard layout
>> changed to British. Having looked at both layouts online the characters I
>> use seem to be the same on both.
>> Anyone got any ideas? (I’m an old Mac user but am not the familiar with
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> them
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>> any Longer after using Windows for work for the past god knows how long)
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> As
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>> I don’t have the media I cannot just re-install.
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>> TIA
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>> Simon
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>> No virus found in this outgoing message.
>> Checked by AVG. 
>> Version: 7.5.552 / Virus Database: 270.9.15 - Release Date: 05/12/2008
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