Re: Help Resetting Passwords on XP

Hi William,

Great link! I was able to DL it, build the image and make a bootable
CD, and then use it to get files off my wife's PC and onto my 1 GB USB
memory stick.

Why the heck can't Microsoft make a utility like this?

Thanks for your help.

M.

On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 18:51:07 -0800, "WTC"
<bcrawfordjr(remove)@hotmail.com> wrote:

>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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