Password reset disk

[Bill W]

I am trying to make a password reset disk. My PC does not have a floppy
drive, so the attempt to generate a disk fails because it is looking for an
A-drive floppy. Is there any way to generate a password reset CD? Thank
you.

 

[Jim]

I am trying to make a password reset disk. My PC does not have a floppy
drive, so the attempt to generate a disk fails because it is looking for an
A-drive floppy. Is there any way to generate a password reset CD? Thank
you.

I solved this problem by buying a USB floppy drive.
It would be nice if someone could disclose how to use a CD...
Jim

 

[Mike Cawood, HND BIT]

I am trying to make a password reset disk. My PC does not have a floppy
drive, so the attempt to generate a disk fails because it is looking for an
A-drive floppy. Is there any way to generate a password reset CD? Thank
you.

Password for Win XP or for the BIOS?
Mike.

 

[Bill W]

It's for Win XP

Password for Win XP or for the BIOS?
Mike.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

It's for Win XP

The option is to get an inexpensive USB floppy drive. The MS utilities
that ask for floppies (including ASR ntbackup) can't write this to CD.
Otherwise, a number of Linux distributions have XP password reset functions.

Keep in mind that using a password reset utility in XP Pro can have
disastrous consequences if encryption was invoked. Changing an account
password from outside the account will usually instantly break the account's
relationship with the encrypted files.

You must know beforehand whether there's the possibility of encryption
having been used, if the account certificates were backed up (too often the
answer to that is no), and if not if the user actually cares about losing
the data.

HTH
-pk

 

[Nepatsfan]

In

I am trying to make a password reset disk. My PC does not
have a floppy
drive, so the attempt to generate a disk fails because it is
looking for an
A-drive floppy. Is there any way to generate a password
reset CD? Thank
you.

If you have a USB flash drive, you can use that instead of a
floppy drive.

Good luck

Nepatsfan

 

[Jim]

In

If you have a USB flash drive, you can use that instead of a floppy drive.

Good luck

Nepatsfan

That is good to know since flash drives are cheaper than floppies.
Jim

 

[Xenomorph]

The best password "disk" I've used it actually a disc.

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

This is the current version:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/cd070409.zip

Just burn to a CD and go.

I've used it on systems that didn't have a floppy drive for some reason. The
CD version also contains extras built-in like support for SCSI and SATA hard
drives.

It's a quick and easy way of blanking out a password.

 

[Bill W]

Thank you all for your help. You've given me the answer I need and a
solution for my problem. Thanks again.

Bill

 

[Guest]

I'm having the same problem! But I have a Windows Vista Home Premium system.
When i put in a USB it says "this is not a recovery disc". What do i do? I
just bought a computer and it already has a user name with an unknown
password. Heeeelp!!