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mortod   08-18-2009 at 09:24:34 PM

I was trying to repair a corrupt windows\system32\config\system file using the recovery console - that did not work. Now, when I use the recovery console I am asked for an administrator password, which of course I do not know.

A further complication is that the machine is configured with RAID (striped disks using Intel Matrix), so booting from any kind of recovery disk requires further drivers to be loaded.

The ERD password reset tool I am using (not sure of the name but it is Linux based, and free) seems to allow support for RAID, but I can not get it to work (NTFS signature missing). I have tried 'fetching' the drivers from a floppy, but that does not seem to help.

So where can I go from here? Are there any other password recovery tools that definitely support Intel Matrix Raid?

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Bronze Win XP badge aford10   08-18-2009 at 11:24:57 PM
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The admin password in the recovery console is blank by default. When it prompts you for a password, just hit enter.

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mortod   08-19-2009 at 10:08:13 AM
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i had tried that. It is not blank - I should have been clearer.

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Bronze Win XP badge aford10   08-19-2009 at 04:34:05 PM
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http://www.petri.co.il/change_reco [...] ssword.htm

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mortod   08-19-2009 at 06:28:17 PM
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Managed to fix it with the following steps:

1. Installed a 3rd IDE hard disk,
2. Installed XP (slipstreamed with RAID drivers) on the new drive and booted from it,
3. Installed RAID driver,
4. Copied backupsof the registry files from the system restore area


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