Lost Password

[OYS]

As a result of injuries sustained in a major car
accident, my 21-year son, a Purdue student, does not
remember much, much less his user name and password for
Windows 2000. Any way to bypass user name and password,
or to reset the whole system? He has important school
data on the harddrive, which we cannot access because
other computers cannot read this drive when I treat this
drive as a slave and install into another computer.

Help!

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

As a result of injuries sustained in a major car
accident, my 21-year son, a Purdue student, does not
remember much, much less his user name and password for
Windows 2000. Any way to bypass user name and password,
or to reset the whole system? He has important school
data on the harddrive, which we cannot access because
other computers cannot read this drive when I treat this
drive as a slave and install into another computer.

Help!

Hi

You might try to reset the local Administrator
password with one of the methods mentioned here:

http://securityadmin.info/noframes/faqget.asp#password

http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm

 

[Guest]

get a friend or someone with a burner to burn this iso.

http://www.dmzs.com/ftproot/security/password/NTRecovery-DMZS.iso
I use it all the time it will reset any local passwords to what ever value you would like? It will not reset active directory passwords, only local accounts.

Instructions:
Burn it
Boot to cdrom
follow the onscreen prompts