Hello Brian, I used the following to clear out the Admin psswed on a couple of W2K systems. The Web page talks about users that have EFS encrypted files or later SP's but the systems that I tried it on had the latest W2K SP4 installed.
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brian Horncastle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 11:55 PM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) WinXP password recovery using Linux > Hello Brian, > > > There is exist nice solution to recover WinXP password and whole system: winternals_erd_commander_2003 - it really boot system from CD then load some kind of administration GUI and one of the options in that GUI - recover all information - passwords etc. > > But it is not easy to get this tool... :( > > Friday, October 24, 2003, 1:34:20 PM, you wrote: > > BH> Hi all, > > BH> Just wondering if anyone knows of any way to recover or reset the admin > BH> password for a WinXP box using Linux. I have come across a few mini Linux > BH> distro's that claim to be able to do this, non of which have actually > BH> worked. > > BH> Thanks for any suggestions, > > BH> Brian H. > > > > -- > Best regards, > Alex mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
