I have an old IBM T23 Thinkpad, with a dual boot of Windows XP and Kubuntu that I gave to another user. They returned it to me because they could not get into the Linux install.
I absolutely cannot remember the password for the Kubuntu install; I've tried all my usual passwords as used on other machines and nothing works.
Is there any way I can recover from this without wiping and re-installing Or should I use GParted or something to reformat the Linux partition to a drive D: for Windows (NTFS??)
Thanks...
Bob
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Tried the suggestions given below, but no luck. Finally re-formatted the drive leaving Windows and a new data partition in place of Linux. Then used the Windows disk to repair the boot record. All working now.
Bob
I absolutely cannot remember the password for the Kubuntu install; I've tried all my usual passwords as used on other machines and nothing works.
Is there any way I can recover from this without wiping and re-installing Or should I use GParted or something to reformat the Linux partition to a drive D: for Windows (NTFS??)
Thanks...
Bob
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Tried the suggestions given below, but no luck. Finally re-formatted the drive leaving Windows and a new data partition in place of Linux. Then used the Windows disk to repair the boot record. All working now.
Bob
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