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    How can I get into my Windows 2000, when I have forgotten my admin password?

    It's been some time since I last visited those 500Mb on my D:-drive, and in the mean time I've forgotten what the heck the PW was...

    Any idea what I can do, bar a reformat and reinstall?

    Jord.
    Jordâ„¢

  • #2
    Take 1 house brick and hit yourself repeatedly around the head until you remember.

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    • #3
      I'm not sure, but I *think* you can plug the HDD into another Win2k machine, and copy the important contents off it. Unless you used encryption on the drive of course

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      • #4
        There are a few Linux bootable floppies floating that allow you to modify the password file, I will try to scrape up a link 4 ya =P

        http://www.windowsitsecurity.com/Art...ArticleID=9528


        Dil

        edit paste link.....=P

        [This message has been edited by Dilitante1 (edited 01 June 2001).]
        Better to let one think you are a fool, than speak and prove it


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        • #5
          If the tips you got does work, I think you should do what Ant's sugessted anyway.

          No offence Jord.

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          • #6
            <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Ant:
            Take 1 house brick and hit yourself repeatedly around the head until you remember.</font>
            Same for Novdid...

            If I do so, the flat would topple over

            dZ, I have another drive in here, so I could copy things over and zip them, but that's the difficult way

            Dillie, thanks
            It's Win2k though...

            I'll try to remember for a while.

            Jord.
            Jordâ„¢

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            • #7
              Read all of it Jord and the site has a search feature for more info on this......
              The Linux bootable does 2K as well.....

              Dil


              Better to let one think you are a fool, than speak and prove it


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              • #8
                Dilitante1
                nice link you posted there
                GigaByte 6BXC, celeron300A@450, 128 Ram, G200 8M SD

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                • #9
                  And here I thought you were going to be blasting Microsoft's "Me" OS.

                  Darn....

                  Good luck on the password hunt...

                  Sometimes it's like hunting snipes...

                  Guyver
                  Gaming Rig.

                  - Gigabyte GA-7N400-Pro
                  - AMD Athlon 3200+ XP
                  - 1.5GB Dual Channel DDR 433Mhz SDRAM
                  - 6.1 Digital Audio
                  - Gigabit Lan (Linksys 1032)
                  - 4 x 120GB SATA Drives, RAID 0+1 (Striped/Mirrored)
                  - Sony DRU-500A DVD/+/-/R/RW
                  - Creative 8x DVD-ROM
                  - LS120 IDE Floppy
                  - Zip 100 IDE
                  - PNY Ultra 5900 (256MB)
                  - NEC FE950
                  - DTT2500 Cambridge Soundworks

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                  • #10
                    <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Guyver:
                    Sometimes it's like hunting snipes... </font>
                    Snipes ... that brings back a few memories. Like "Snipes", the early NetWare 3.x LAN game, one of the very first LAN games. And then there's the snipe hunt in the movie "Straw Dogs".

                    <TABLE BGCOLOR=Red><TR><TD><Font-weight="+1"><font COLOR=Black>The world just changed, Sep. 11, 2001</font></Font-weight></TR></TD></TABLE>

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                    • #11
                      Delete the SAM file in \winnt\system32\config or ask me how you can get ERD.
                      C:\DOS
                      C:\DOS\RUN
                      \RUN\DOS\RUN

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