Password recovery

[Marky]

Got Win2000 server loaded unto local machine, forgot
Administrator password, got only access to user password
with unlimited rights,need to recover or gain
administrator rights to machine. Help

 

[Robert Cohen]

You will probably need to reload w2k server.

 

[Matt Hickman]

Got Win2000 server loaded unto local machine, forgot
Administrator password, got only access to user password
with unlimited rights,need to recover or gain
administrator rights to machine. Help

If your user ID has "unlimited rights" you can reset the
Administrator's password, from the command line:

net user Administrator newpassword

 

[Jerry Dennany]

I've had success with this:

http://www.shebeen.com/bootdisk.htm

I've used it on both Windows 2000 SP4 and Windows XP SP1. Pay attention to
the documentation, and use at your own risk.

Jerry Dennany
(e-mail address removed)