Re: lost password - Windows 2000 server...


"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote in message
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| "coobal" <coobal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| > Help! I have a problem trying to access a Windows 2000 Server. The
local
| > administrator password is unknown, and thanks to a bad tech support
call,
| > Domain and enterprise admins are not part of the local administrator
| group.
| > Normally, we would use the Offline NT Password & Registry Editor
| > (http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/) but, the person who set up
the
| > server made the System drive a dynamic drive, (it's mirrored to two
drives
| > using Windows.) The cdrom is not able to detect dynamic disks. Right
| now,
| > we do not have any administrative access to this box.
|
| If Sonat's suggestion does not fix the problem then you can
| temporarily "convert" the disk to a basic disk by booting
| the machine with a Win98 boot disk (www.bootdisk.com),
| then running ptedit.exe
| (ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/tools/pq/utilities/)
| It lets you change the type of your partition - simply make it NTFS.
| As long as you change the partition type only and remember WHERE
| you changed it and WHAT it was before, the change is fully reversible.

This was interesting to learn! Thank You!
I think there is one other tool that can also do this:
Boot from Slackware installation Disk-1 and type:
cfdisk
cfdisk /dev/hda
cfdisk /dev/hdb
....

It is very easy to use. It can add/remove partitions or change partition
types (completely reversable and safe). The dynamic volume is displayed like
a partition so you can change its type (shown as a hex code). There is a
table with many partition types and their hex-codes (if I do not mistake, 07
is NTFS).


| You should also think about the robustness of your installation. How
| many sets of keys do you have for your car? More than one? Why?
| How many admin accounts do you have for your servers? Just the
| one? Why?
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