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Anonymous   03-04-2005 at 03:03:06 PM

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I just had a building wide power outage. When the (win2k Pro) system rebooted
NONE of the passwords would work INCLUDING the administrator! I suspect the
password file has been corrupted as my normal user did not have a password on
the account (only user in office).

The system is NFTS.

I really don't want to lose my emails.. Is there anyway to erase/reset the
password file or am I doomed to reformat?

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"David Donnell" <David Donnell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:131E2244-C1C7-4A06-963B-3D388F93502D@microsoft.com...
> I just had a building wide power outage. When the (win2k Pro) system rebooted
> NONE of the passwords would work INCLUDING the administrator! I suspect the
> password file has been corrupted as my normal user did not have a password on
> the account (only user in office).
>
> The system is NFTS.
>
> I really don't want to lose my emails.. Is there anyway to erase/reset the
> password file or am I doomed to reformat?
>

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