password recovery help?

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How can I get my password to get into Win2000 on my old work Dell latitude
PII PC?

I dont know admin password for Win2000 laptop and now my personnel password
doesnt work any longer either.

I DO NOT have any Win2000 CDs to create a boot disk.

I did my best Google to find a solution and found a admin password solution
with this:
http://www.lostpassword.com/windows-xp-2000-nt.htm

Unfortunately it requires a boot disk which I need the Win2000 install disk
to create...again I have no disks.

If I can get it running, laptop will be fine for me to use a Backup server
to drive external HD on my home LAN. I dont want to spend $200 for XP OS
for this when Dell Latitude PII is pretty worthless, and I can buy a brand
new PC P4 from Dell for about 150 more. Also I dont want to go the steep
learning curve to put Linux on it.

Can I create a win2000 boot disk with some download or something?

Any help appreciated.
Thank you

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

I have two solutions:
1.Delete file "sam" in directory "window" in system partition on another
computer
2.Use the bug that Microsoft had patched for windows2000 professional,You
computer should not intall service pack2 first.
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| | How can I get my password to get into Win2000 on my old work Dell
latitude
| | PII PC?
| |
| | I dont know admin password for Win2000 laptop and now my personnel
password
| | doesnt work any longer either.
| |
| | I DO NOT have any Win2000 CDs to create a boot disk.
| |
| | I did my best Google to find a solution and found a admin password
solution
| | with this:
| | http://www.lostpassword.com/windows-xp-2000-nt.htm
| |
| | Unfortunately it requires a boot disk which I need the Win2000 install
disk
| | to create...again I have no disks.
| |
| | If I can get it running, laptop will be fine for me to use a Backup
server
| | to drive external HD on my home LAN. I dont want to spend $200 for XP
OS
| | for this when Dell Latitude PII is pretty worthless, and I can buy a
brand
| | new PC P4 from Dell for about 150 more. Also I dont want to go the
steep
| | learning curve to put Linux on it.
| |
| | Can I create a win2000 boot disk with some download or something?
| |
| | Any help appreciated.
| | Thank you
| |
| |
|