Lost Password Help

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In news:YT2ne.270756$cg1.61587@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net,
fred <fred@hotmaim.con> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> I have a W2k Pro workstation that was in storage for a year. I've
> lost and forgotten the administrator password. It's FAT32 and all is
> visibile from a w98 boot floppy. It's 15GB of installs , fixes and
> the whole MSDN development environment. Is there any way out?

This should do the trick:

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Galen
--

"And that recommendation, with the exaggerated estimate of my ability
with which he prefaced it, was, if you will believe me, Watson, the
very first thing which ever made me feel that a profession might be
made out of what had up to that time been the merest hobby."

Sherlock Holmes

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

Since you are using fat32 boot from the floppy and use the command ren
c:\winnt\system32\config\sam c:\winnt\system32\config\samold and then reboot
your computer. You then should be able to logon to the computer by entering
the administrator password but entering no password. Be sure to give it a
password ASAP however. The computer will generate a new sam file with only
the built in administrator account and guest account. If you do not want to
delete existing accounts then use Galen's suggestion. --- Steve


"fred" <fred@hotmaim.con> wrote in message
news:YT2ne.270756$cg1.61587@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>I have a W2k Pro workstation that was in storage for a year. I've lost and
> forgotten the administrator password. It's FAT32 and all is visibile from
> a
> w98 boot floppy. It's 15GB of installs , fixes and the whole MSDN
> development environment. Is there any way out?
>
>