Lost Administrators Password

[Guest]

I forgot my administrators password. I didn't set up a security question or
make a reset password disk. OK, so sometimes I'm an idiot. I really need to
have access to my files...oh, about an hour ago. Is there anything I can do
to log in to my own computer?

 

[Guest]

All right, I guess I'm not that much of an idiot after all. I finally
remembered my password. You can disregard my question...however, the answer
would be interesting. Sorry to bother you.

 

[Guest]

I would have liked to see an answer as I am in the same boat. Have been told
the only fix is to reformat the hd and start over.

 

[Malke]

I would have liked to see an answer as I am in the same boat. Have
been told the only fix is to reformat the hd and start over.

Next time make a new post instead of tacking onto someone else's. That
way both you and the OP will get the help you need. Here is your
answer:

In XP Home, boot the computer into Safe Mode. Do this by repeatedly
tapping the F8 key as the computer is starting up. This will get you to
the right menu. Navigate using your Up arrow key; the mouse will not
work here. Once in Safe Mode, you will see the normally hidden
Administrator account. The default password is a blank. Log in and go
to the User Accounts applet and set a password you will remember.

In XP Pro, you do not need to go into Safe Mode. At the Welcome Screen,
do Ctrl-Alt-Del twice to get the classic Windows logon box. Type in
"Administrator" and whatever password you assigned when you set up
Windows.

If you reset the built-in Administrator account's password in Home or
have Pro and don't remember the password, use NTpasswd to change the
built-in Administrator account's password to a blank. Then go to the
User Accounts applet in Control Panel and set passwords that you will
remember and make other desired changes.

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

Malke

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I forgot my administrators password. I didn't set up a security question or
make a reset password disk. OK, so sometimes I'm an idiot. I really need to
have access to my files...oh, about an hour ago. Is there anything I can do
to log in to my own computer?

Simply log in using the built-in Administrator account (which
cannot be deleted) and reset the password of the desired account(s). By
design, the only way to log into the Administrator account of WinXP Home
is to reboot into Safe Mode. For WinXP Pro, pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL twice
at the Welcome Screen will produce the standard login dialog box.

HOW TO Create and Configure User Accounts in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;279783


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[Guest]

No Problem buddy, Go to Google and search for Password reset floppy.
Download that software and make one Password break floopy. Use that to
restart your system. It will ask you to put any password there, you may use
Blank password by typing * there. And after restarting your system you will
get it back to normal. But these kind of solutions came always without any
Guarantee so there is a risk in using that.
Have a good luck!

 

[coal_brona]

Greetings,

To reset lost password I suppose you using Active@ Password Changer
utility. That worked for me before, so I'm pretty sure that should
help. The tool is small yet easy to use and can quickly perform the
operation.

http://www.password-changer.com/

 

[Guest]

hi,

did you finally bought this Active@ Password Changer or not?
does it work or not?

it seems I have been locked out from Admin. rights after i did a reset of my
password and didn't provide for a new one ...

greet.
Panos

 

[Malke]

hi,

did you finally bought this Active@ Password Changer or not?
does it work or not?

it seems I have been locked out from Admin. rights after i did a reset of my
password and didn't provide for a new one ...

You've posted to a very old thread and what's worse, you've responded to
a spammer. There is no reason to ever pay for a password changer
program. See below.

If you have forgotten your password, if you have another user account
with administrative privileges you can log into that account and change
your original user account's password from the User Accounts applet in
Control Panel. If you don't have another account like this set up or
don't have the password to it, you'll need to log into the built-in
Administrator account. In XP Home, boot the computer into Safe Mode. Do
this by repeatedly tapping the F8 key as the computer is starting up.
This will get you to the right menu. Navigate using your Up arrow key;
the mouse will not work here. Once in Safe Mode, you will see the
normally hidden Administrator account. The default password is a blank.

In XP Pro, you do not need to go into Safe Mode. At the Welcome Screen,
do Ctrl-Alt-Del twice to get the classic Windows logon box. Type in
"Administrator" and whatever password you assigned when you set up Windows.

If you reset the built-in Administrator account's password in Home or
have Pro and don't remember the password, use NTpasswd to change the
built-in Administrator account's password to a blank.

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

Then go to the User Accounts applet in Control Panel and set passwords
that you will remember and make other desired changes. WRITE THE
PASSWORDS DOWN AND PUT THEM SOMEWHERE YOU WON'T LOSE THEM.

To change the built-in Administrator account in XP Pro if you can log
into another account with administrative privileges reset the password
in the Local Users and Groups snap-in in Microsoft Management Console
(MMC):

1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type "mmc" (without the quotation marks), and then
click OK to start MMC.
3. Start the Local Users and Groups snap-in.
4. Under Console Root, expand "Local Users and Groups", and then click
Users.
5. In the right pane, right-click Administrator, and then click Set
Password.
6. Click Proceed in the message box that appears.
7. Type and confirm the new password in the appropriate boxes, and then
click OK.


Malke

 

[Guest]

thanks,

I ve just fiished making the boot disk and copied the unzip file to another
one.
hope I'll recover my admin. acc.

Just one Q. why the ISO image doen't show a one when i unzipp the file to a
folder on my hard drive ? is it because i don't have any burning software
installed or something else

what do you recommend sd i have two CD/DVD IDE drivers available for
recording TDK AID-440 Indi MultiFormat & LiteOn Multi DVD-RAM so I can create
an ISO image for better compatibility and security in booting up in DOS

thanks, for the warning label "spammer what can we do about it ?"

Mihalakis

 

[Malke]

thanks,

I ve just fiished making the boot disk and copied the unzip file to another
one.
hope I'll recover my admin. acc.

Just one Q. why the ISO image doen't show a one when i unzipp the file to a
folder on my hard drive ? is it because i don't have any burning software
installed or something else

what do you recommend sd i have two CD/DVD IDE drivers available for
recording TDK AID-440 Indi MultiFormat & LiteOn Multi DVD-RAM so I can create
an ISO image for better compatibility and security in booting up in DOS

You must have third-party burning software installed in order to burn an
..iso. XP's burning capability doesn't include this. You cannot simply
burn the files to CD; this will not create the bootable CD. You must
burn as an image, not data. Here is a link to a free CD/DVD burning
program that will be able to burn an .iso:

http://www.cdburnerxp.se/


Malke

 

[Guest]

hi, again
I have a piece of info (in text) regarding XP made DOS boot floppy disk
NTPasswd recover & IDE/SATA drv. disk how it runned first time in my system:
Info: Server tyan trinity board Intel (4HT Northood S478) w. ECC RAM & XP
Prof. SP2 installed as Workgroup in a Domain ($Admin shares $C:\ & $D:\ H.D.
via remote controls ..) !! now that was new to me ! truthfully

Before I begin let me share this,
I believe you really deserve some money ... from all of us here and a big
thank you for your free piece of software .. nice work in DOS ! hope it will
work in ISO for better and faster compatibility with my Award BIOS setup
(Boot order)

boot normal in DOS with F.D. NTPasswd after restart from Safe Mode twice

command <-d>

Disks
Disk /dev/sda: 37.0GB 360... bytes
Disk /dev/sdb: 400.0GB 400.... bytes
Canditate Windows partitions found:
1: /dev/sda1 25580MB BOOT
2: /dev/sdb1 381551MB BOOT

Mounting from /dev/sda1 with filesystem type NTFS
NTFS-fs error (device sda1): check_mft_mirror():$MFT and $MFTMirr (record 4)
do not match. Run ntfsfix or chkdsk NTFS volume version 3.1
NTFS-fs warning (device sda1): load_system_files(): Volume has been modified
by chkdsk. Will not be able to remount read-write. Mount in Windows.
NTFS-fs warning (device sda1): load_system_files(): $LogFile is not clean.
Will not be able to remount read-write. Mount in Windows.
Mount NTFS FOR WRITING FAILED !

then if I choose to continue with step two select Path & Registry files
c:\windows\system32
freezes for good, need to re-boot

any ideas why?
the system upon load displays a huge multi partition list with files
extensions I'll try to capture some the next time, but i don't see any other
reason why it fails to continue even when my installation of Windows works
quite well. Is that a sign of infection some how? I had some serious slowing
down system boot-up/shut down speed issues last month & had to recover
stability with a backup Norton Ghost image I had made immediate after XP
installation & network setup Wifi Internet w. DSL Router hardware

Mihalakis

I trully beleive that you deserve some money for your work when it'll works.

 

[Malke]

Mihalakis wrote:

Comments inline (with snippage):

I have a piece of info (in text) regarding XP made DOS boot floppy disk
NTPasswd recover & IDE/SATA drv. disk how it runned first time in my system:
Info: Server tyan trinity board Intel (4HT Northood S478) w. ECC RAM & XP
Prof. SP2 installed as Workgroup in a Domain ($Admin shares $C:\ & $D:\ H.D.
via remote controls ..) !! now that was new to me ! truthfully

I'm not quite sure what you're saying here. OK, you made a bootable
floppy with NTpasswd instead of a bootable CD.

Before I begin let me share this,
I believe you really deserve some money ... from all of us here and a big
thank you for your free piece of software .. nice work in DOS ! hope it will
work in ISO for better and faster compatibility with my Award BIOS setup
(Boot order)

I have no idea what you're talking about here. NTpasswd isn't mine and
it doesn't work in DOS. It is Linux.

boot normal in DOS with F.D. NTPasswd after restart from Safe Mode twice

No DOS. Linux. If you could restart (get into Safe Mode), then what are
you using NTpasswd for?

command <-d>

Disks
Disk /dev/sda: 37.0GB 360... bytes
Disk /dev/sdb: 400.0GB 400.... bytes
Canditate Windows partitions found:
1: /dev/sda1 25580MB BOOT
2: /dev/sdb1 381551MB BOOT

Mounting from /dev/sda1 with filesystem type NTFS
NTFS-fs error (device sda1): check_mft_mirror():$MFT and $MFTMirr (record 4)
do not match. Run ntfsfix or chkdsk NTFS volume version 3.1
NTFS-fs warning (device sda1): load_system_files(): Volume has been modified
by chkdsk. Will not be able to remount read-write. Mount in Windows.
NTFS-fs warning (device sda1): load_system_files(): $LogFile is not clean.
Will not be able to remount read-write. Mount in Windows.
Mount NTFS FOR WRITING FAILED !

then if I choose to continue with step two select Path & Registry files
c:\windows\system32
freezes for good, need to re-boot

I really don't know what you're doing. I believe we probably have a
language barrier. My guess is that either you have SATA drives not
supported by the floppy version (it doesn't have all the drivers that
the CD has because of size) and/or your partitions are messed up. But
that guess could be completely off the mark since I'm not understanding
your post.

any ideas why?
the system upon load displays a huge multi partition list with files
extensions I'll try to capture some the next time, but i don't see any other
reason why it fails to continue even when my installation of Windows works
quite well. Is that a sign of infection some how? I had some serious slowing
down system boot-up/shut down speed issues last month & had to recover
stability with a backup Norton Ghost image I had made immediate after XP
installation & network setup Wifi Internet w. DSL Router hardware

Again, I have no idea what you're trying to convey. I thought your issue
was that you need to change the Administrator's password to get into
Windows. If you have some other issue, then you should make a new post
clearly explaining the problems. Possibly it would be better to post in
a newsgroup for your native language. Here is a list of all the MS
newsgroups:

http://aumha.org/nntp.htm

The alternative is to 1) test your hard drive to make sure it is good;
2) if the hard drive is good then restore your backup image; 3) or take
the machine to a professional computer repair shop (not your local
version of BigComputerStore/GeekSquard) and have them take a look.

I'm sorry that I was unable to help you.


Malke

 

[Guest]

oh, my mistake then

I just wanted to reset my Admin password & actually just did it with
Password Changer 3.0 (boot CD program)
I thought this program NTPasswd (boot F.D & IDE/SATA drv. disk unzipped)
could work also with XP SP2 Prof. but I now understand it's for use with
Linux kernel OS

I can't/don't know how to make a bootable CD with CDBurner XP ver.4 I've
tried and burned one .ISO file <cd070927.iso> on CD but it failed to
boot-maybe something went wrong in writing the image to disk at once or
something i missed.

anyway thanks for your time and quotes

Mihalakis

does this also apply for the CDBurner ver.4.0.022 ?? because I have use it
with no problems so far ...