Forgot my boot password on my old compaq presario 3000. What do i do?

[passwordrecovery2000]

I forgot my boot password on my old compaq presario 3000 and I can't get in.

 

[Saga Lout]

Hello and welcome to Tom's Hardware Forums.

If by boot password you mean the BIOS password, you're sunk but if it's only the Windows system password you could install a Linux system on to the same hard disk and transfer your flies to the new system.