[mgrist]

I have a laptop given to me by a friend. It's a Toshiba Portege running XP which had been used on a domain. I couldn't get it to network with my home network because it was part of a domain. I used these instructions to remove it from the domain:
http://forums.techguy.org/windows-nt...er-domain.html
However now I can't boot since the old password to access the computer is no longer valid. I can't access the computer at all. I have an old XP install disk which I wanted to use to repair, however the laptop has no CD drive and and won't boot from an external USB CD drive. It also doesn't have a floppy drive installed.

There are some files on the laptop which I need however even taking out the HDD didn't help as the HDD has a non-standard connector and I can't connect it up to an external USB housing.

I can't get into safe mode either ... It seems to have been disabled on this computer with its strange proprietary BIOS.

Any ideas? maybe if I bought an external floppy I could use DOS to move the files from the HDD into an external HDD? maybe then I could run the CD repair? not sure!