change administrator account

[paradive]

so....... my laptop died and someone did a re-install.
now, the only account is just "owner" and a real generic password.

how do i change that?

[collisionystm]

so....... my laptop died and someone did a re-install.
now, the only account is just "owner" and a real generic password.

how do i change that?

Windows? XP? Vista? 7?

[paradive]

Windows? XP? Vista? 7?

maybe "administrator" was bad wording.........

he did a dual boot install of win7/ubuntu. where he installed ubuntu in a folder, not partition (no idea how he did that).
anyway, yeah...... the only account on here is "owner" and it's annoying me.

[collisionystm]

He did a WUBI install of Ubuntu.
With windows 7 you go to control panel, user accounts.
Ubuntu just look for user accounts.

[Frogs Hair]

Ubuntu was most likely installed with wubi https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide

If you have the administrator pass word open user accounts and select unlock and enter the pass word to change account details .

[paradive]

He did a WUBI install of Ubuntu.
With windows 7 you go to control panel, user accounts.
Ubuntu just look for user accounts.

ah, gotcha.

next question.... how do i get it to see the rest of the drive?
ubuntu doesn't recognize internal filesystems, no?

[collisionystm]

ah, gotcha.

next question.... how do i get it to see the rest of the drive?
ubuntu doesn't recognize internal filesystems, no?

Ubuntu can.
Your using Wubi so the setup is different. I have never used wubi... I would read up on it a bit or consider installing Ubuntu on an actual partition. << Very easy.