Admin disabled, user locked

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Victor

I have two users and guest set up on XP Pro. The users
both mistyped their passwords and have been locked out.
When I tried the Admin account it comes up as disabled.

The Guest account works fine.

This is a new install; two months old. But, there is data
from a previous computer on this one under the user
accounts.

What are my options?
Thanks, Victor
 
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Victor said:
I have two users and guest set up on XP Pro. The users
both mistyped their passwords and have been locked out.
When I tried the Admin account it comes up as disabled.

The Guest account works fine.

This is a new install; two months old. But, there is data
from a previous computer on this one under the user
accounts.

What are my options?
Thanks, Victor

Do a search on the google for NFFSDOS. Download this to a floppy and
boot to it. You'll then be able to access the data files so you can copy
them over to a floppy. After that, if you can't login as Administrator
(the Administrator CANNOT be disabled), then the REAL Administrator
account may have been renamed. In that case you got a big problem, and
may have to reinstall XP after you've recovered the data files from it.

Anyone else got ideas?

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