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Gareth Lock   10-20-2008 at 09:29:56 AM

I am looking desperately for a program/bootdisk that will reset/retrieve an XP logon password on a FAT32 system. All the ones I've seen so far can only handle NTFS. I'm doing this for a friend and I'm completely lost for a tool that will do it for VFAT machines...

Any help would be gratefully recieved

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Gareth Lock   10-20-2008 at 03:14:51 PM
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Tried this one already and it won't detect the disk... I know the hardware works as it gets as far as the logon screen.

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BeakerUK   10-20-2008 at 03:21:06 PM
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can you boot into safe mode and get in the admin account? Most pre-configured machines don't have a password on the admin account.

Other than that, stick the disk in a caddy, plug it into an XP Pro/Vista Business (or above) machine and take ownership of the files, format the machine and start from fresh.

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Gareth Lock   10-20-2008 at 05:01:28 PM
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Could it be strange/custom hardware that's causing the problem?? After all... I am dealing with an HP Pavillion here with one of those hidden partition system restore things. Maybe it's seeing the wrong partition, or something...

God do I hate that hidden partition crap!! Why can't people like HP give away CDs like everyone else??

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Gareth Lock   10-20-2008 at 05:01:33 PM
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Could it be strange/custom hardware that's causing the problem?? After all... I am dealing with an HP Pavillion here with one of those hidden partition system restore things. Maybe it's seeing the wrong partition, or something...

God do I hate that hidden partition crap!! Why can't people like HP give away CDs like everyone else??

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4ryan6   10-20-2008 at 10:32:07 PM
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You might try looking here www.bootdisk.com under Utilities > Security


Message edited by 4ryan6 on 10-20-2008 at 10:36:25 PM
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