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Click to See Complete Forum and Search --> : Windows 2000 lost password jray 04-30-2002, 07:04 AM Anyone know how to log on to Windows 2000 (pro, on a lan) to which the operator forgot (?) the password, without overwriting the Windows directory? To make things worse, (or at least more difficult) it's on an NTFS partition, I don't know how to boot to a command line since I need the Admin password to use the recovery console....... jray:confused: BipolarBill 04-30-2002, 10:25 AM Sorry. :( If there was a back door for logging on to Win2K, the logon process would be rather lame, wouldn't it? If you can extract the SAM file, you're 20% of the way there. If you want to try, you can parallel-install another instance of Win2k and recover the file that way. Most of the helper apps are not freeware, unfortunately. jray 05-01-2002, 03:03 AM Thanks Bpb, but I yanked the drive out and connected it to my XP machine and cleared the Administrator password. (Thank goodness for the Sysopt archives and search engine!) BipolarBill 05-01-2002, 03:04 AM You did what? Tell me more! jray 05-01-2002, 03:22 AM I searched the forums for "lost password" and found this in one thread: http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=96254&highlight=lost+password I found the fix in the reply by AMMOK, worked like a charm. (Of course, the user profile had to be recreated and data copied from the corrupt profile to the new one) jray :D BipolarBill 05-01-2002, 10:55 AM Kewlio! That Ammok! Hehe... The hard drive swap was your idea, eh? Good one. You're lucky to have another WinNT machine handy (as I am). I must admit that I didn't know that simply deleting the SAM files would let you in. I know now. ;) You'll forgive me if I don't try this at home under "normal" circumstances. :eek: SysOpt.com
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