Lost my password years ago - now trying to use the computer again. W2K boots up to the password screen but i can't get any farther. Suggestions? There is no CD attached (drivers outdated?)

You would typically see this if your hard drive has died. A replacement drive is not expensive, but you will need to install Windows again, and your data is likely lost. Data can be recovered from a dead drive, but it can be very expensive. I paid $1200 to have thousands of e-mails recovered a couple years ago.

no such thing, in 2018, HP does not support it now. ended ! LONG LONG AGO.
desktop PC, relic? (hp/compaq) uses 5000 in many different PC)
factory,reset (what does that mean?) reset to WHAT?
no symptoms stated, ,
NO OS STATED< wow, is it windows, windows what?
it has version W2K ; is windows dead, that it?
BIOS reset
BIOS password reset
windows password reset
windows XP dead? so want to reset (called a full fresh reload of the OS its called) that?> windows 2000?

5000
the OLD Pentium 4 PC, (relic)?


this old pig? 10 years old today, with zero street value. $0
why spend money on any PC this old,?
with that funny thing there a FLOPPY drive? this old?

this PC will not run modern OS. at all.
W7 if lucky I bet not.
this PC runs Windows 2000,, or W2K we say,
there is no HP recover partition on this old PC, that happened 7 years later,
so only CDs reload the this PC here. period;.

the free books shows it runs windows 98, SE ,w2k.
not even XP yet, some of these PC made next year 2001
had XP, and runs explorer 6

Lost Windows password:

• Login as Administrator. Try with no password (load safe mode if you don't see Administrator). Press F8 during boot to access Safe Mode. XP only.
  
• Login as other user (if other user is available) and manage users. Must be an administrator.
  
• Reformat computer.
  
• Use 3rd party software to remove password. Like http://www.top-password.com/reset-windows-password.html
  
• Free software option would be Hirens Boot CD. This one is command prompt only. http://www.hirensbootcd.org/ Must follow instruction exactly.
  

This is simple if you download the SmartKey Windows Password Recovery software make it bootable cd or dvd . And start the booting from this cd and flow the insrrctions on screen you will go to password recovery option and set all the password for administrator and if you get admin pass you can change all use passwords.
Details in:
http://www.recoverlostpassword.com/products/windowspasswordrecovery.html

Forgot Windows XP password? check out this solution, Windows XP Password Reset.

When you boot up to the log in screen type in administrator to log in once you have your computer running again you have to take control (administrator)control panel user accounts on the users tab,click the name of the computer administrator you can change the password there or if your computer has a system restore you can restore it to an earlier date which will have your personal settings

also you might try

when you boot up to the log in screen type in administrator to log in if you cant log in

during the boot up process you will see on the screen for a short amount of time press a certain key to enter set up

Press and hold that key during the boot up process to enter BIOS scroll down to set user password or supervisor password you can change or remove your password from there

also

control panel user accounts

on the users tab,click the name of the computer administrator you can change the password there

hope this helps

click forgot password and go through that

try F2 you didnt say whether it was set in the bios or in the initial configuration pages.
However a F9 whilst booting takes you to restore the factory settings(every other boot) goto restore factory settings--press "E"-- choose restore image--press "B"-- then try to reconfigure the first few pages of the initialising programs,date,time,location etc.

The board is probably good but I've seen this many times when folks try to upgrade old computers. The drivers included with XP aren't working on your machine. It's not working with W2K because when you formatted the HD with XP it removed the IBM label from the HD. You should use your recovery disks to restore the drive.

Replace the Hard Drive.