Re: Password recovery help?
From: Pegasus \(MVP\) (I.can_at_fly.com)
Date: 01/29/05
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:05:22 +1100
"jtsnow" <jtsnow@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> How can I get my password to get into Win2000 on my old work Dell latitude
> PII PC?
>
> I dont know admin password for Win2000 laptop and now my personnel
password
> doesnt work any longer either.
>
> I DO NOT have any Win2000 CDs to create a boot disk.
>
> I did my best Google to find a solution and found a admin password
solution
> with this:
> http://www.lostpassword.com/windows-xp-2000-nt.htm
>
> Unfortunately it requires a boot disk which I need the Win2000 install
disk
> to create...again I have no disks.
>
> If I can get it running, laptop will be fine for me to use a Backup
server
> to drive external HD on my home LAN. I dont want to spend $200 for XP OS
> for this when Dell Latitude PII is pretty worthless, and I can buy a brand
> new PC P4 from Dell for about 150 more. Also I dont want to go the steep
> learning curve to put Linux on it.
>
> Can I create a win2000 boot disk with some download or something?
>
> Any help appreciated.
> Thank you
>
>
There are several ways to resolve this problem:
- The easy way: Log on under the alternative admin account
that you wisely created when things were going fine, then reset
the passwords to the other accounts.
- The hard way: Boot the machine with a boot disk from the
link below, then reset the password for the admin account.
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html
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