Expired Admin Password

[Rez]

I need to get back in without reinstalling. It's been a
while and now I can't get in... Can any one help me get
my files back I don't care about upgrading or
reinstalling but I need to get in to windows 2000
fast...Thank you inadvance for any help you can give me.

 

[NIC Student]

Have you tried administrator (with no password)? Sometimes that is set as
default.

Look in the microsoft.public.win2000.security group for some password reset
utilities. We a linux floppy to reset passwords.

 

[Guest]

If you rename/delete the sam file located in c:\winnt\system32\config it will set the admin password back to blank. If your system is setup with the fat file system then you can boot up with a regular 98 disk and do this (you can create a bootdisk from one of these utilities http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm). If your system is using NTFS then you will need a utility on your boot disk that can mount NTFS drives (a utility called ntfs pro is good at this, do a search on google for it). That's it, you will reset the admin password.