Re: Help Resetting Passwords on XP

You don't buy the CD image, you create this image yourself with your Win XP
CD. As far as I know BartPE is a free program. Maybe you clicked on one
those Google Ads.

Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

--
William

"Mark" <markxyz59@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:43b88ee7.48350703@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi William,
>
> I tried all of those, except BartPE. I avoided Bart because he wants
> you to pay for CD boot image (not that I blame him!). Maybe I'll blow
> all day tomorrow on Bart-stuff. I tried everything else today.
>
> That Norwegian/Russian software is pretty awesome:
>
> http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html
>
> I'm assuming it's like BartPE, in that it completely unlocks the C
> drive (unlike the stupid Recovery Console). The problem is that it's
> Registry Editor is only for Win95, and it cannot do mixed FAT32/NTFS
> systems (which I have).
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 16:48:17 -0800, "WTC"
> <bcrawfordjr(remove)@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>"Mark" <markxyz59@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>news:43b7f006.7678609@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>I posted earlier about Windows Updates screwing up and not accepting
>>> any passwords (it would login and then quickly log out). Good News: I
>>> was able to get the Recovery Console to give us access to the disk. We
>>> can see C and D drives and all files are there.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to clobber/reset passwords from the command prompt?
>>>
>>> Our first instinct was to stick a USB Drive in and copy stuff, but the
>>> USB drivers don't appear to be there on the recovery console.
>>>
>>
>>
>>Unable to Log on if the Boot Partition Drive Letter Has Changed
>>http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=249321
>>
>>How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows
>>http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223188
>>
>>The two KB articles requires the use of a networked machine to gain access
>>to the registry. You could also perform the registry edits via BartPE
>>bootable CD. Or you can *slave* the hard drive to another working XP
>>machine
>>to make the registry edits. If you need help on doing this please let me
>>know.
>>
>>--
>>William
>>
>>
>>
>





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