Forgotten password

ben12321 · 23 Jan 2013 at 17:47

Sister has a 4 yr old macbook pro and has forgot her password and has no installation cd. i have searched the internet and discovered i can put new password in via the command prompt however this machine says
localhost :/ root#
on the instructions and video's on youtube all the prompts have
:/ root# without the localhost in front. So whenever i follow the instructions the prompt remains localhost :/ root'
can someone tell me how i change the path to root' only
sorry if this sounds all jumbled i would appreciate any help

ben12321 · 23 Jan 2013 at 18:02

Been using this
http://uk.video.search.yahoo.com/vi...12+[Solved/Closed]the+...&c=1&sigr=11agl6bum&
plus reading a few others

ben12321 · 23 Jan 2013 at 20:54

No just keeps going to localhost command prompt

ben12321 · 23 Jan 2013 at 23:28

just read that and its way over my head dont understand the instructions

ben12321 · 24 Jan 2013 at 13:24

Will give it a go a mate has a newer version so will see if I can use his cd

ben12321 · 25 Jan 2013 at 17:50

Well got dvd held down c get a language box click English the next box i get says mac osx cant be installed on this computer. the only option i get is to restore from backup or restart

ben12321 · 26 Jan 2013 at 13:07

Got 2 dvds mac osx install dvd and applications have turned on comp whilst holding c i dont get the prompts from that link it just gives english language selection and the cant be installed

ben12321 · 26 Jan 2013 at 14:49

I think the os is tiger on this and the disk i have is lion, might have to see if i can get tiger from somewhere