Re: unknown password for singing in to win2k - how to get in?

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Yeah, these USB devices can be quirky to say the least. When buying a new pc I always insist on having an internal diskette drive. Computer manufacturers are going on the extreme cheap nowadays and consumers sometimes don't know what problems might pop up latter on. A diskette drive costs about $10 in a new pc and I think it's $10 well spent. The diskette drive is necessary if you want to flash the BIOS or if you need to install scsi/raid (F6) drivers when you install Windows. But you got around the problem anyhow...

John

niteowl wrote:
John John,

followed your directions, but when I hit "ENTER", the command window just closed, nothing happened. :(

tried it several times, same result.

I moved it to an older win98 machine, and it worked just fine though on the standard A: drive.. ??

Seems there's some issues with the USB floppy...

thanks for the help.

niteowl


"John John" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23DcuRscWGHA.1220@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

What file did you download? I don't know how to change the USB drive letter assignement off hand but the diskette creation program for the Offline NT Password & Registry Editor asks you for the target drive when you execute it, so just type in b for your diskette drive. I just now tried it and it works for me. It took less than 5 minutes to do the diskette and when I booted with it, it loaded the expected utility. Here are the steps I took:

1- Download: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bd050303.zip

2- Unpack bd050303.zip to a suitable loaction.

3- Stick a diskette in my diskette drive and format it to make sure it has no bad sectors.

4- In the folder where I unpacked bd050303.zip there are 3 files, bd050303.bin, install.bat and rawrite2.exe. Double clik rawrite2.exe and a cmd session starts:

RaWrite 2.0 - Write disk file to raw floppy diskette

Enter disk image source file name: bd050303.bin
Enter target diskette drive: a
Please insert a formatted diskette into drive A: and press -ENTER- :

I typed in the source file name (bd050303.bin) and the target drive (a) and the rest just happens, the diskette is created, that's all there is to it. At the "Enter target diskette drive:" line you just have to type b for your USB diskette.

Remove the diskette when done and boot the affected computer with it.

John



niteowl wrote:

thanks John John,

researching this brought up another challenge... my computer (windows XP Pro) has only a USB floppy drive, which is coming up as the "B" drive... and these programs are looking for an "A" drive to create the boot disk..

I had an "A" drive showing, but none installed, so went into the cmos and set the A floppy as not installed, hoping the USB would take that drive letter, but it's still showing as "B"

Went into the Administrative Tools thinking I could simply reassign the drive letter, but it doesn't show up in there... so..... how do I get this system to see the USB floppy as the "A" drive?

thanks,
niteowl

"John John" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23BisLlRWGHA.840@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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

John


niteowl wrote:



hi,

one of my daughter's friends has a win2k machine, and suddenly her password won't work anymore... she says all was working okay, went away on a trip and when she came back it wouldn't work..

my guess is someone changed it, maybe on purpose, maybe simply a mistake, but no one is fessing up...

in win98 I could just boot to dos and delete the .pwl file, and have it boot again... is there something similar I can do in win2k?

thanks,
niteowl




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