Win 2000 Pro password help!!!

[samistall]

Ok....My wife set up an administrators password for her 2k pro but now the password won't work. She entered all the info, including retyping the password and then turned the computer off, when she tried to boot the computer it wouldn't allow her access. Can we get around this in any way? Would microsoft have a password over ride? Thanks in advance.

sam

 

[zgtrman]

I know that you do not want to hear this ..but you are going to have to re install WIN2k .. but this time write down the password exactly as you enter it...because without you have no way of getting in.

Sorry

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[BIS]

caps lock?

 

[Merline]

s* happens...

try the below:

Because your machine is a Win2K system, you can't load its SAM into L0phtCrack to crack the administrator password. L0phtCrack would be unable to crack the password hashes in the SAM, because Win2K automatically encrypts them with Syskey. Because your computer isn't a domain controller (DC), however, another option exists. The procedure works only on Win2K Server, Win2K Pro, and Windows NT systems that aren't DCs. You can use Peter Nordahl's Ntpasswd tool (available at

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html)

to reset the administrator's password.

Download bd010114.zip and rawwrite2.zip from Nordahl's Web site, unzip them to a folder, then open a command prompt and change to that folder. Run rawwrite2.exe, and at the prompt for an image, type

bd010114.bin
Put a blank 3.5" disk in your disk drive, and specify its drive letter when the Rawwrite2 program prompts you. Rawwrite2 creates a Linux boot disk on that blank disk. The boot disk contains the program Ntpasswd. Put the disk in your Win2K Pro computer, and reboot. Linux loads, then Ntpasswd starts. Ntpasswd guides you through the steps to reset the Administrator account password to a password of your choice. When you're finished, remove the disk and reboot. You should now be able to log on with the new password.

 

[WindowWizard]

After resetting the admin password, FIRST THING is to set up another administrator. This way, if the Admin password is forgotten, at least you can log in with the other adminsitrator's id and reset it.

Our policy on new installations is to exactly that. Set the Admin password and create another administrator account and set that password as well. At least then, there's two shots to getting into a machine.

WW