--- On Tue, 7/29/08, TNWestTex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: TNWestTex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: OT: What is fusebulk filesystem? ntpass fails to reset windows
> password :(
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 10:54 AM
> Antonio Olivares wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> > A Lenovo Laptop running Windows Vista locked out
> the teacher who was
> > issued the computer at school. The teacher forgot
> the password. I have
> > successfully used the SystemRescue
> CD http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
> > with the utitlity ntpass many times. This time, it
> failed. I also tried
> > the cd from
> http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ which is the
> same.
> > The laptop locked the teacher out and he could not
> login. I told them it
> > was a snap and boy was I wrong. The cd locates the
> users and apparently
> > all looks good and when we reboot we try with a blank
> password and we
> > cannot log on. Trying other livecd's also gets
> us nowhere. There
> > apparently is some garbage on the
> C:\Windows\system\system32 directory
> > that prevents the ntpasswd from doing its job. When
> viewing the
> > filesystem which should be NTFS, the programs
> accessing the drive report
> > that the fs is fusebulk. I have not heard about
> fusebulk filesystem.
> > There has to be some sort of encryption on the drive
> to prevent the
> > password blank from working.
> > Does anyone have any other tools that can reset the
> password in such a
> > case?
> > Is the only solution to reformat and reinstall?
> >
> >
> NTFS from VISTA has changes that have not been caught up to
> by the non M$
> utilities. The school doesn't have a system
> administrator that has the
> master password?
> --
Thank you for your concerns and also to another user that explained the fuse
filesystem.
The computer has been reformatted and the software reinstalled. It somehow is
protected* (when you try to blank or change the password, it locks you out),
this is the kind of sh*t that we do not like. But we popped in a restore cd
that came with the laptop and started it from scratch. If we mess around with
any livecd with password changer/reseters, the computer will not boot even with
the correct password that was issued. This is weird and is the second computer
of many that I was not able to blank the password so as to gain back control.
Also happened in another case a Dell machine running XP and the teacher let a
student use the computer to do a research paper, the student changed the
password and locked everyone out of it. I tried to use the SystemRescueCD,
trinity Rescue CD, and I could not finish the job. Several modules could not
be loaded and the machine would return a kernel panic. Another friend of mine
had a Windows LiveCD built with BartPE and he got in and changed the password
back :) This allowed the teacher to get back the control of the computer.
Thank you all for your help!
Regards,
Antonio
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