What is my Administrator Password?

[Guest]

I recently installed a new motherboard and cpu, but I want it to read my
existing hard drive. When I attempt to run my computer, it won't boot to my
hard drive's windows installation. A computer technician told me to boot to
my windows xp cd and repair my windows installation. When I do this, it
finds my windows installation on c:\windows and asks if this is the one I
want to repair. When I say yes, the program asks for my administrator
password. I didn't know I had an administrator password. I only have one
user set up in windows and it has no password. What do I do? I can still
boot this installation of windows on my original motherboard and change the
administrator password if I have to. How do I do this?

Mark

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I recently installed a new motherboard and cpu, but I want it to
read my existing hard drive. When I attempt to run my computer, it
won't boot to my hard drive's windows installation. A computer
technician told me to boot to my windows xp cd and repair my
windows installation. When I do this, it finds my windows
installation on c:\windows and asks if this is the one I want to
repair. When I say yes, the program asks for my administrator
password. I didn't know I had an administrator password. I only
have one user set up in windows and it has no password. What do I
do? I can still boot this installation of windows on my original
motherboard and change the administrator password if I have to.
How do I do this?

Did you try just pressing ENTER?

If that fails..

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

Another:
http://www.thomasmathiesen.com/itak/html/software.html

LCP
http://www.lcpsoft.com/english/

John the Ripper
http://www.openwall.com/john/

L0phtCrack is/was popular as well - but I couldn't find the link quickly
(Symantec owns it.)

How to create and use a password reset disk for a computer that is not a
domain member in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305478

 

[Harry]

password reset disk won't help you b'coz to create this disk you will need
to be logged on as administrator and if you don't know the password you
can't do that


Harjeet