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Went to my folks house over christmas and dad hands me my mom's pc. It wont boot up anymore he says. K, fine, I'll see what I can do.

Two drives, an 8.4 maxtor and a 40 gb something else. Bios sees both drives but it wont boot up. I put my windows xp disk in the drive and it sees a d:/windows partition on the 40 gig drive. I boot to recovery mode but its prompting me for an admin password.

I call dad up.. hm, dont think i used a password on that old windows install but if I did, I have no idea what it is.

I'm wanting to do a format /mbr to see if that fixes it, however, I'm not sure thats even the problem. I dont even know what Os is on that larger drive. My best bet is that the C drive, the 8.4 gig one, was the boot drive and it has given up the ghost and the data is gone, however, the bios still sees it.

Wanting to see if I can boot off the D drive, I cannot get past the admin login.

Any quick and simple way of doing this, or is my best bet to just slave the drive in my other pc and grab what data I can off of it.?
 
Originally posted by: slag
Went to my folks house over christmas and dad hands me my mom's pc. It wont boot up anymore he says. K, fine, I'll see what I can do.

Two drives, an 8.4 maxtor and a 40 gb something else. Bios sees both drives but it wont boot up. I put my windows xp disk in the drive and it sees a d:/windows partition on the 40 gig drive. I boot to recovery mode but its prompting me for an admin password.

I call dad up.. hm, dont think i used a password on that old windows install but if I did, I have no idea what it is.

I'm wanting to do a format /mbr to see if that fixes it, however, I'm not sure thats even the problem. I dont even know what Os is on that larger drive. My best bet is that the C drive, the 8.4 gig one, was the boot drive and it has given up the ghost and the data is gone, however, the bios still sees it.

Wanting to see if I can boot off the D drive, I cannot get past the admin login.

Any quick and simple way of doing this, or is my best bet to just slave the drive in my other pc and grab what data I can off of it.?
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We have a CD at our datacenter, which was actually really fricking expensive (lol both the datacenter and the CD haha), but works like a champ. It's called WinTernals, and has all kinds of goodness. I think a license for it is about $3g, and BestBuy was recently sued because copies of Winternals were found all over the place at various Geek Squad locals.

You boot from it, and it has all kinds of utilities, including recovery utilities. I can't tell you how many times we've used the "locksmith" utility to reset passwords. It works on 2000 and XP based systems. I had to borrow it once to reset the pw on my parents machine. Took all of but 3 minutes.

I wouldn't recommend checking a torrent site for a Winternals ISO.

 
Trinity Rescue Kit. It is free, and a relatively small ISO (about 100MB or so). Just download and then burn it to a disk. Drop that into the system, boot from it, and then follow the instructions on the website.
 
I believe orphcrack does this also. There is another way involving the 'disability' type services (if memory serves).
 
Can't Log On to Windows XP?

If that?s your only problem, then you probably have nothing to worry about. As long as you have your Windows XP CD, you can get back into your system using a simple but effective method made possible by a little known access hole in Windows XP.

This method is easy enough for newbies to follow ? it doesn?t require using the Recovery Console or any complicated commands. And it?s free - I mention that because you can pay two hundred dollars for an emergency download of Winternals ERD with Locksmith which is a utility for unlocking lost Windows passwords. See here http://www.winternals.com/prod...recovery/locksmith.asp

ERD is an excellent multi purpose product, but you should know it is not a necessary one if you have a healthy system and your sole problem is the inability to logon to Windows due to a forgotten password. Not necessary because you can easily change or wipe out your Administrator password for free during a Windows XP Repair. Here?s how with a step-by-step description of the initial Repair process included for newbie?s.

1. Place your Windows XP CD in your cd-rom and start your computer (it?s assumed here that your XP CD is bootable ? as it should be - and that you have your bios set to boot from CD)

2. Keep your eye on the screen messages for booting to your cd Typically, it will be ?Press any key to boot from cd?

3. Once you get in, the first screen will indicate that Setup is inspecting your system and loading files.

4. When you get to the Welcome to Setup screen, press ENTER to Setup Windows now

5. The Licensing Agreement comes next - Press F8 to accept it.

6. The next screen is the Setup screen which gives you the option to do a Repair.

It should read something like ?If one of the following Windows XP installations is damaged, Setup can try to repair it?

Use the up and down arrow keys to select your XP installation (if you only have one, it should already be selected) and press R to begin the Repair process.

7. Let the Repair run. Setup will now check your disks and then start copying files which can take several minutes.

8. Shortly after the Copying Files stage, you will be required to reboot. (this will happen automatically ? you will see a progress bar stating ?Your computer will reboot in 15 seconds?

9. During the reboot, do not make the mistake of ?pressing any key? to boot from the CD again! Setup will resume automatically with the standard billboard screens and you will notice Installing Windows is highlighted.

10. Keep your eye on the lower left hand side of the screen and when you see the Installing Devices progress bar, press SHIFT + F10. This is the security hole! A command console will now open up giving you the potential for wide access to your system.

11. At the prompt, type NUSRMGR.CPL and press Enter. Voila! You have just gained graphical access to your User Accounts in the Control Panel.

12. Now simply pick the account you need to change and remove or change your password as you prefer. If you want to log on without having to enter your new password, you can type control userpasswords2 at the prompt and choose to log on without being asked for password. After you?ve made your changes close the windows, exit the command box and continue on with the Repair (have your Product key handy).

13. Once the Repair is done, you will be able to log on with your new password (or without a password if you chose not to use one or if you chose not to be asked for a password). Your programs and personalized settings should remain intact.
 
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