win 2000 password

Bleep

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I have a win 2k machine that I was putting on a wireless network and when I rebooted up popped a sign in box with the user box saying administrtor and I had not passworded anything on this machine, now I cannot acess the hard drive, anyone got a fix for this?
I have tried everything I know but have had no luck.
Pretty bad when some kid hacker in china can hack into my machine and I cannot

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NoelS

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Bleep,

I assume you've just tried using Enter as your password? Sometimes when a password is requested (even when you don't realize it) and you don't assign one, you can just hit Enter to get in...

Sorry to hear you got in this bind. I hope you can find a solution besides a clean install...

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Bleep

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NoeIS

Thanks for the reply. Yep I tried that, I have almost everything backed up but not my bookmarks and mail.
It is not critical but just a pain, probably just install another hard drive and save the corrupted one and maybe at a later date give it another shot'
again, thanks

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VinDSL
Holy smoke, a bunch to decide on. I did a search and did not find anything like this. I cannot remember the search terms I used but I must have used the wrong words.
Everything I found was in the several hundred dollar range.
Thanks a bunch, I owe you one.

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