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HOW2 reset 2 day old Win8.1 disaster?
Paul,
my X86 system was stolen. Fortunately I've got the backup disks. Since Win7 crashed 2 years ago, I only use Linux. In order to get on-line with a 3g-modem, which would not connect via my RPi [which I WAS able to use with a previous model G3-modem] I decided to buy a laptop. A 'Proline' was twice the hardware for the same price as I paid for a smaller [Win7] HP, 5 years ago. But I'm shocked at the recent developments of PCs !! After familiarising a bit, I decided to login to a M$ mail account. The Proline vendor had logged into the W8.1, because I insisted on a demo/proof that it could drive the G3-modem. The main-login had no password. The password that I chose for the M$-mail: I noted in the *Proline* with my log-notes. At the next boot-login the thing wanted my ***.M$.com password !! Which was recorded in my notes INSIDE !! So the intended *MAIL* password, had become the login password, and was "hidden" inside ! The conventional *nix solution is to live-CD and use *nix to examine the notes file with the logged password. But NO! the partitions are no longer arranged as previously, where the BIG user's-data-parition is the last, which would be still mostly empty; so that *nix could use the tail of that BIG, last artition to install itself. Now M$ has put the data partition inside [#4] and put a partition of executables at the end: #5. If you mess this 5th partition, you can expect the PC to be unbootable. By the time I had installed the *nix to partn-2 of a USB-stik, I had apparently reset M$ to clear the users files. The running *nix which could show all partitions & files didn't find my notes. During the forced research, I discovered that command.exe is available [without a Win8.1 login]. Which is able to read/write any files. I wrote some. So where's the security then ?! Following the sequence: shift / powerup / F2 ? F7 which leads to reinstall from a DVD prompt, I took the thing back to the vendor, who seemed to be trying to re-install from the net, and was on the phone to the agent -- after 2 days. And still I couldn't collect it. What a disaster. I read your post about BIOS SLIC table. How do I make this M$ garbage usable? My gmail is problematic with the RPi. that I'm also using to write/send this with. ==TIA. |
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