Formating Latitude C400 - HELP!

[hn120]

I have a C400 which im trying to format, the problem is it has no floppy or CD drive. I have a USB DVD drive and floppy but it wont recognise themon boot.

I can't get in to Win 2000 as my sis has forgotten her password. So I was wondering if anyone knows what I can do.

If I can get in to DOS then I can install the USB drivers and reformat but I havent found a way to get in to DOS :nowords:

any help would be much appreciated!

[GedR]

hn120 -

Win2000 systems are normally formatted to NTFS so even if you had a floppy drive you couldn't see the hard drive from the A:\ prompt as Dos won't recognise the format. Probably the easiest solution is to pop the hard drive out and connect it to a desktop system (via a 2.5" to 3.5" IDE adaptor cable) and access it that way.

Hope this helps ..... GedR

[hn120]

thanks Ged, will go grab one of these