Re: locked out of XP, need file access

[Brian Dunbar <brian.dunbar () plexus com>]

On Dec 24, 2003, at 5:17 PM, Rade Bonifacic wrote:

> Hi J,
>
> go to the following URL
> http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm
> and you will find links to tools that will help you

This link from the above page (http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ 
) did the trick numerous times with NT4 - a linux based floppy that 
mounts the hard drive, and by allows you to edit the local password 
database.  Used on NT4 several times, once (IIRC) on W2K.  It failed me 
once; a client had a NT4 server with an odd SCSI hard drive and the 
disk wouldn't mount it.

~brian


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