locked out of administrator

[Johnny]

Okay, I know I'm a doofus for getting locked out of the administrator
account but I'm wondering if there's anything smart I can do now. I
took a machine off the domain and when it restarted the administrator
account wouldn't work. My instinct is to just prep a new disk for
the machine, run the old disk as data drive to capture user settings/
datafiles.

 

[John John]

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

John

 

[Johnny]

Thanks - that worked. I'm impressed and terrified at the same time!

 

[John John]

You're welcome. Accounts and passwords provide only limited security,
if your files are very sensitive then you have to physically secure the
computer or the hard drive itself.

For future reference keep in mind that if you have encrypted files using
password cracking or reset utilities will cause you to lose access to
the files, your encryption key will no longer be valid after you use
these password reset utilities.

John