Re: Domain Controller Failure

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From: Mike [MSFT] (mikeva_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/07/04 

Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:57:04 -0700

You will need to logon with a 'local' administrator account. This will not
require any domain authentication.

If you do not have a local administrators password then that makes it more
difficult.

There have been some other threads on recovering a lost administrator
password and these people have been directed to this site:
http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBD/tip1900/rh1984.htm

I've never tried this myself, so I can't attest to the ease of use or
success rate.

Once you are able to logon as a local administrator, you can put the system
into a Workgroup instead of the Domain (this might take a few minutes as it
will try to connect the old domain first.)

Good luck! 

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Thanks,
Mike
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"Larry Allbritton" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:1f1901c4aa40$79314f00$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> My PC is running Windows 2000 Professional.  The PC is
> used at home but it used to be a part of a network at work.
> The domain controller appears to have failed and it no
> longer allows me access and control of my domain.  Is
> there a way to disable this since I no longer need the
> domain controller anyway?  Right now, I am locked out of
> any changes because I do not have administrator rights and
> I do not know what the administrator password was when
> this PC was part of the network.  Please help.

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