Admin password retrieval windows 2000 pro

[clubsport]

Hi, I have a little used desktop and stupidly we have forgotten the user password. No idea of the admin password either.OS is windows 2000 professional.

I spoke with a computer literate mate who put me on to a site to download a linux fix...tried this.. the message came back as Boot Failed:

I have been on to google and ended up lost in a few forums.

Could anyone on here please provide a link to asite with a posiible fix ...or any one have any idea how to get into this pc?

Surely someone else has bee equally stupid in the past?

[Plotloss]

Ugly.

Theres not many ways, easiest is a bit of software.

Typically however this isnt easy to use as various switches need setting and files expanding to disk from DOS/Recovery Console.

How important is the contents of this workstation?

You could, I believe, if its got an installed NIC hook it up to a network and copy the contents onto another machine remotely...

[clubsport]

Hi Matt, Thanks for the response....content is not important at all,just a spare..I got it from my ex work,,so don't have admin paswwords....tried another google fix...no joy....

[SoftwareSorcerer]

Clubsport - YHM.

[Jay-Aim]

this did it for me once


http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/


good luck

[ultimasimon]

Jay-Aim said:

this did it for me once http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ good luck

Me too, just used it last week on a laptop for the first time. I just did a google for windows 2000 password recovery and hey presto. It grants you local access and allows you to reset the passwords. Also allows you to change them and read the old ones that were hashed out Very good little program. There are other implications if you are running active directory however.

Also on that site is a link to another program which allows you to edit the regsistry via the recovery console - tedious, but it works. I had to enable the guest account using the registry to get in on another and it was quite awkward working through a CLI interface but got there eventually - ah takes me back to my dos days.