Tim; you can boot from the win98 cd and reformat and install win98 If your motherboard supports booting from the cd. or boot from a win98 floppy, repartition and format and install. I usually copy the win98 folder from the win98 cd to the c:\ drive then install from there. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Wright" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 5:08 PM Subject: [PCBUILD] Gaining access to my old computer > boy i'm glad i found this site, as i am pulling out my hair. I pulled out > my old computer from the attic to give my son to do school work on. it > has windows 2000 as the o/s but when i turned it on, the log in message > appears and after all this time, i don't remember my log in or password. > I want to reformat the hard drive to windows 98, as that is the only discs > i can still find. can I access the system to change o/s without logging > onto the computer? or do you have any idea how i can recover or check the > system for that information? Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://freepctech.com