Laptop is Toshiba Satellite A300-1MM ( Pentium T3200, GMA 4500M, 250GB...) with preinstalled x32 Vista Home Premium.
Initial problem seemed to be just forgotten password. I tried to enter safe mode, but it stops for few seconds after loading
crcdisk.sys driver and continues booting in normal mode. I've tried renaming pcmcia drivers, but no luck.
Next, I tried to add administrator to startup screen. I've used another Vista's installation DVD to open recovery console and
command prompt and use "net user Administrator /Active:yes". It showed no errors.
I don't know if it's important, but "net user" listed only Administrator and Guest accounts, not usual account which is displayed at start screen.
This account is displayed as "USERNAME." ( with . ), but user folder on system disk is "D:\users\username"
Next I tried with manual registry edit in recovery console. In HKEY_LocalMachine\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersio\Winlogon\. I've added key SpecialAccounts and sub-key UserList , and Dword Administrator with value of 1.
No luck.
I noticed that after rebooting, registry forgot all changes I've made.
I also noticed that Shell variable which should be explorer.exe is "cmd.exe /k start cmd.exe".
I googled that and it turned out to be virus Win32:Sality.
I've scanned entire laptop with Kapersky disk but it reported no virus.
Toshiba has option to restore system partition to factory settings but
I can't do it because it asks for password which I don't have.
I've tried retrieving password with OPH Crack, but it reports "not found".
Initial problem seemed to be just forgotten password. I tried to enter safe mode, but it stops for few seconds after loading
crcdisk.sys driver and continues booting in normal mode. I've tried renaming pcmcia drivers, but no luck.
Next, I tried to add administrator to startup screen. I've used another Vista's installation DVD to open recovery console and
command prompt and use "net user Administrator /Active:yes". It showed no errors.
I don't know if it's important, but "net user" listed only Administrator and Guest accounts, not usual account which is displayed at start screen.
This account is displayed as "USERNAME." ( with . ), but user folder on system disk is "D:\users\username"
Next I tried with manual registry edit in recovery console. In HKEY_LocalMachine\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersio\Winlogon\. I've added key SpecialAccounts and sub-key UserList , and Dword Administrator with value of 1.
No luck.
I noticed that after rebooting, registry forgot all changes I've made.
I also noticed that Shell variable which should be explorer.exe is "cmd.exe /k start cmd.exe".
I googled that and it turned out to be virus Win32:Sality.
I've scanned entire laptop with Kapersky disk but it reported no virus.
Toshiba has option to restore system partition to factory settings but
I can't do it because it asks for password which I don't have.
I've tried retrieving password with OPH Crack, but it reports "not found".
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