Most Toshibas have a small pinhole reset button. Try pressing this button while holding down the left shift key, keep the left shift key pressed while it boots up. This does not work for all tosh laptops. Matt -- -----Original Message----- From: michael stephens [mailto:mstep99@charter.net] Sent: Monday, 27 October 2003 6:35 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: hi I have a satellite pro 420cds and I do not know the password to boot I baught it used. can you help. sandra