I messed up and changed my win2k administrator password. The cheapest solution to reset the password according to [color=“blue”]Googl[color=“red”]e is using a linux boot disk and resetting it with the utilities provided.
How do I get the disk to work? I know there’s something about formatting the disk so it reads as linux and putting the necessary files on it rather than putting it on a windows/dos formatted disk. I don’t have linux and I’m at a loss.
Hopefully I’m not being too vague or making this into something bigger than it should be.[/color]
So you changed the admin password, but you’ve forgotten what you changed it to? The only thing I’ll say about Linux is be careful what you do, especially if you choose manual setup - you can nuke your hard drive very very easily if you don’t know what you are doing. Not recommended unless you know exactly what you are doing.
What you need (besides an appropriate bootdisk image) is a program called RAWRITE.EXE. There are several different versions of this, depending on the Windows version you are using, but they all do the same thing: write logical blocks to raw storage instead of to a filesystem. Once you have a copy installed, you can copy the disk image directly onto a floppy without it getting hosed.
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raisinbread, this is not an official notice, but I’m begging you now. Please stop wth the colors. It’s just getting annoying.
Thanks.
Well I gothalfway through the process of resettingthe password when I remembered that I changed the name of the administrator but the password remained the same.
hee hee
thank you though!
So you changed the Administrator account username? If you know what the password is, why can’t you log in using the new username with the same password as before?
I can, it’s fixed. I feel silly.
samarm, the problem was confusion, and thinking what was reset was the password, not the username. Realizing that the reset was the username and not the password was a later recollection and the solution to the problem.