Re: Fixing Clobbered MBR -- Resolution


"Malke" <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| You can get Ophcrack on a bootable live cd, but I think it is much
| easier to use NTpasswd. Download the .iso, burn it to cd (need
| third-party software to do this), and boot with it. Follow the
| instructions and change the administrator password to a blank.
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| http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
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With one minor glitch, ntpasswd worked beautifully. I first tried to set
the password to a string we conventionally use and that failed but retrying
it to set it to blank worked perfectly.

Thanks to all who responded.

Norm

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