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Locked out of W2k box

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Ben

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My cousin just dropped off his computer over here for me to "fix". Somehow he screwed up his password and locked himself out of the administrator account. The admin account is the only account on the computer other than the guest account which is disabled.

Obviously he doesn't want to format because he's got information on there he needs to keep.

The system drive is one 9GB "C" partition that's a RAID1 mirror on a RAID SCSI controller so I can't take out his drive and put it in another computer. The C drive is the only drive in the system.

I was going to install a second copy of W2k on the drive but the install claims there's not enough free space on the drive.

What a mess!

Any ideas would be VERY appreciated. Any way to force a W2K install? Any way to recover the password or set the password to something new?

I did some searching and found a few password hackers but everyone wants $100+ for them.
 
Thanks for the help. I tried the Linux boot disks from NT Admin tips site. The utility seemed to function properly but none of the SCSI drivers would load for the RAID controller that's in the computer. I think it's some off-the-wall HP controller. I bet the utility would work though if I had drivers for the controller.

Everything else had a price tag on it. The demos all had very limited functionality and none of them would reset the admin password without some $$$.

Thanks for the help though! It looks like my cousin has backed himself into a corner here. I'm going to just tell him the bad news. I hate to be a jerk but this is a good lesson for him about why you don't put all your eggs in one basket. He claims there's data on there that he absolutely must have. LOL! This should be fun! 🙂
 
Ben, sounds like you'll have to add another drive to the system, like an IDE drive, and then install Win2K onto this drive. When you load the drivers for that SCSI RAID controller, you should be able to access the data on it.

Assuming his system supports IDE, all you need is an old IDE drive of a few GBs, just enough space to install Win2K.
 
Originally posted by: owensdj
Ben, sounds like you'll have to add another drive to the system, like an IDE drive, and then install Win2K onto this drive. When you load the drivers for that SCSI RAID controller, you should be able to access the data on it.

Assuming his system supports IDE, all you need is an old IDE drive of a few GBs, just enough space to install Win2K.
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No, No, No..........

That would work, but it is not as fun as the other solution 🙂

For us at least 😀
 
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