Yea, I changed the bios boot order, and when that didn't work I tried to do the "On the Fly" thing. It still didn't work. No error messages or anything it just went straight to your password has expired. did this on both the cd and theflash drive.
Does she have this computer from work/university? If so it needs to be seen by their IT dept.
Edit: when you say she never had a password, how long for?
Yes it appears this computer has been/is part of a domain which requires a password and it has been disabled. Is this possibly stolen? Did you buy it from a reputable source?
It is connected to my home network, which I tried using with no luck. I did get it off E-bay. The previous owner, put a fresh instal of windows 7 on it before they shipped it. However, we have had this computer for over six months. Why would it suddenly decide that it wasn't conected to its previous owner.
Well whether the cause for the switch from "Local log on" to "Domain log on" was a windows error, user error or malware is unclear. Whichever the case, without booting to a device with a repair utility on or re-installation media you are not really going to be able to do anything about it.
Is the machine using the welcome screen or asking you to press Ctrl+alt+del to log on?
This system obviously was part of a domain. I do not think you are going to get very far without the domain. If I were you, I would cut my losses, save my data with a live Linux CD and reinstall the OS - e.g. from the recovery partition if present.
Britton, the last time we worked on a machine that wouldn't boot from DVD or USB, it was a dead motherboard. It has to have a bios issue.
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