I have a panasonic cf 30, bought from an auction, i dont have any back up cd's and the laptop has a password installed which i dont know, is there anyway i can by pass this ?? thank you Tony

Press "F2" on your keyboard when you see the Panasonic logo appear on the screen. You will immediately be prompted to enter your Panasonic Toughbook Cf-29 BIOS password. Type the word "Biostar" into the password prompt. This is your Panasonic Toughbook Cf-29 backdoor BIOS password. Press the "Enter" key to unlock your Panasonic Toughbook Cf-29 BIOS.

Don't know the generic password, you probably can get it if you contact Panasonic about this, but you can however reset the password. To reset the BIOS password read the information from this link.

In case of your laptop the easiest method would be using software from Hiren's Boot CD.

press f8 hold it then turn it on select safe mode then go to control panel disable admin password save it then restart, administrator always has a password:: password then upgrade it

xp requires at least 1g of memory to run and 10 g of hard drive space, if you dont have this it wont install

if you are able to open motherboard then simply remove CMOS bettry for 10 sec and put again then password will reset...if you dont open motherboard then ask me?????

Hello,

www.Newegg.com is a great place to purchase this product. Nice laptop BTW...

Armymason

There are Linux password removal programs on the Internet. It is designed to remove passwords on NT, Win 2K and XP.
You copy the program to a CD and boot up from this CD. It allows you to reset or remove the users and administrator passwords.
Google search for these programs "password recover" There is another solution. You can reinstall windows and this will give you a clean computer and possibly better performance without the accumulated junk/rubbish. Don't forget to get/download all the device drivers (eg. video, audio, modem,NIC etc.) before you start.

Go to the Panasonic site, go to their support pages and use the serial number from the laptop to find the original configuration. The touch screen drivers will be there, just download and install. Keep a copy of the drivers on cd for the next time your computer is reformatted or crashes.

Hi, 
Does it have floppy disk drive? If so, try creating a boot disk. Boot from the floppy, then format or re-partition. Then boot from XP CD to install XP.
Regards, dC

DO U MEAN THE HARD DRIVE HAS PASSWORD PROTECTION???