How would wipe the complete hard drive (besides the core OS its self) of Windows 2003?

Long story short I bought a IBM Xseries 305 server and don't know the login password. How would I, from the bios, wipe the hard drive, besides the OS, and start fresh? Step by step instructions would be greatly appreciated!


Unfortunately, you can't. You can only wipe the entire hard drive when you are outside the OS. What you want to look for instead is a "password reset" disk for Windows. Boot off the disk and have it blank out the administrator password.

I'd rather not link to any specific ones, but go ahead and Google for them. Some are free, other cost a little bit, but work well.


I'll link, no fear.

http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

Hiren's is awesome, and EVERY admin should-have.