xp professional account lockout

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I'm trying to recover my data where I am locked out of my
account. I have done a restore to a prior date, which
results in showing my account again. However, when I
reach that point, I have no mouse or keyboard and have to
reset. Then once again, I either have no account or when
I try to logon, the password is invalid. All I want to
do is recover my data and reformat the drive. My
directory is still there, and I think my data is still
there, but of course I can't see the files. Is there any
way to override the security, to be able to recover my
data files? Thanks.
 
-----Original Message-----
I'm trying to recover my data where I am locked out of my
account. I have done a restore to a prior date, which
results in showing my account again. However, when I
reach that point, I have no mouse or keyboard and have to
reset. Then once again, I either have no account or when
I try to logon, the password is invalid. All I want to
do is recover my data and reformat the drive. My
directory is still there, and I think my data is still
there, but of course I can't see the files. Is there any
way to override the security, to be able to recover my
data files? Thanks.
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The bottom line... you can't logon if you don't have the
account password. There are other ways to get around it
like possibly doing a logon with an Domain Admin account
if you have physical access to a domain and the computer
has an account on that domain. You can also attempt to
use the XP recover counsel - look on technet or in
WindowsXP help for more on that. Also, you can reinstall
XP to a different directory like "windows2" or anything
different from the original install - then boot up to the
new install and access the data from that install - be
sure to not format the drive on the install.
 
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