Recovery Console - I don't know the Administrator Password

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Danforth France

I'm trying to run Recovery Console on my Windows 2000 and it asks me
for the Administrator's password and I have no idea what it is. I am
the administrator, but I haven't used that password in years. Is there
a way around this?

Danforth
 
Are you saying you cannot enter the recovery console if you have just the
default admin account and you have a blank password for it? Nice! I'll
file that away as reason #234934 to NEVER have blank passwords.

Ray at work

Dave Patrick said:
If you can logon normally then reset it. Else you're likely out of luck.

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Danforth France said:
I'm trying to run Recovery Console on my Windows 2000 and it asks me
for the Administrator's password and I have no idea what it is. I am
the administrator, but I haven't used that password in years. Is there
a way around this?

Danforth
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Nope, didn't say that. You need to *know* the password (blank or otherwise)
for the local administrator account in order to start the recovery console.
In other words I guess if you didn't know it was blank and also didn't try
blank (typing random characters) then you would not get there. I guess I
assumed the op did try the enter key probably more than once.
 
Logon to Win2000 with your alternative admin account, then reset
the password for the primary admin account. Lastly, store the
details for both account in a safe place - they are the master keys
to your system!
 
You can bypass this prompt with a change in the Local Security Settings (Administrative Tools).

Look under Local Policies | Security Options. Enable this > Recovery Console: Allow automatic administrative logon
 
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