Bussarin said:
As more and more new PCs have no floppy drives, a few questions
arise:
1. What would be an alternative to the diskette for the password
reset disk?
2. If I need to have an external USB floppy drive, can I use a USB
flash drive instead? And, how to setup the USB flash drive so
that Windows XP would recognize it as a password reset disk?
Shenan Stanley wrote
Look into BartPE and - in particular - the UBCD4WIN version of it
- which has a way to reset passwords.
Remember - resetting a password in this way messes up EFS - bad.
http://www.ubcd4win.com/
Thanks Shenan. I'm aware of such a bad effect of resetting
password to EFS files. That is why I am looking for another way to
create the password reset disk without a floppy drive.
Unfortunately you are using a product (Windows XP) made just when the useful
life of the floppy disk was going to the ether. However - it wasn't close
enough and this is one of those legacy things that still require it. There
are way around just about everything else (installing your controller card
drivers without using the F6 method during a Windows XP install, etc) - but
I have yet to find a way to create a password reset disk in Windows XP
without using a floppy diskette drive (borrowed or otherwise.) Some claim
it works on Zip disks as well - untested by myself however.
I do believe the floppy essentially only contains one file when it is done
being "created" - and I cannot honestly say that if you took that file and
burned to to a CD that you would be able to use it at the logon screen..
But you would still need a floppy/zip drive for a bit, eh?
