reset windows 2000 admin pass

[samit700]

Hi,
I am using a Dell laptop with Windows 2000 OS. The laptop does not have an internal floppy drive or a cdrom drive. I need to reset my admin pass but I dont recall my old pass. All I have is a USB port so how should I go abt doing this ? I have come across some suggestions but all require having a floppy drive. If I use an external drive, then first I will have to load the drivers and how do I do that without access to OS?

any suggestions ?

thanks,
Samit

 

[cornboy88]

Does your current logon have Admin rights? If so, try this from a command prompt.

net user administrator newpassword

 

[samit700]

No I switched on my laptop after a long time and can't recall my password. So I need a way to reset my pass during startup.

thanks,
Samit

 

[LesNicholls]

Go to this site

http://ravenphpscripts.com/article196.html

From here you can create a admin password reset tool that fits on a floppy disk