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  • Jorden
    Super MURCer
    • Aug 2000
    • 5255
    #1

    Stupid me !!!

    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„¢
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    • Ant
      Administrator
      • Aug 1999
      • 2375
      #2
      Take 1 house brick and hit yourself repeatedly around the head until you remember.

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        • dZeus
          Moderator
          • Aug 2000
          • 4622
          #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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            • Dilitante1
              Administrator
              • Aug 1999
              • 1829
              #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/Articles/Index.cfm?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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                • Novdid
                  Super MURCer
                  • Nov 2000
                  • 2609
                  #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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                    • Jorden
                      Super MURCer
                      • Aug 2000
                      • 5255
                      #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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                        • Dilitante1
                          Administrator
                          • Aug 1999
                          • 1829
                          #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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                            • arbymo
                              MURCer
                              • Sep 1999
                              • 303
                              #8
                              Dilitante1
                              nice link you posted there
                              GigaByte 6BXC, celeron300A@450, 128 Ram, G200 8M SD

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                                • Guyver
                                  Super MURCer
                                  • Jan 2000
                                  • 965
                                  #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
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                                  - 4 x 120GB SATA Drives, RAID 0+1 (Striped/Mirrored)
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                                  - Creative 8x DVD-ROM
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                                    • xortam
                                      Super MURCer
                                      • Sep 1999
                                      • 4534
                                      #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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                                        • DosFreak
                                          MURCer
                                          • Feb 2000
                                          • 645
                                          #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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