forgotten password problem

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.security (More info?)

There are free utilities that can be used to reset the built in
administrator account to users that have full physical access to a computer.
Otherwise simply put the hard drive in another computer as a secondary/slave
hard drive to copy the files. That will not work however if any files are
encrypted via EFS which will require the use of the user which encrypted the
files on an XP Pro computer. For a W2K computer, EFS files probably would be
available to whoever can logon as the built in administrator account. The
other problem you may run into if you put the drive in another computer is
that you may have to logon as an administrator to "take ownership" of the
files so that you can give yourself NTFS permissions to access the files.
The links below may help. --- Steve

http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_admi [...] ssword.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;308421 --- work
the same in Windows 2000

"Lisa Simpson" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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>I have to get some work files off an old computer; problem is when it boots
> up it asks for a password that no-one remembers; is there any way to get
> in
> to get the files off the harddrive?
>
>