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by doer 1 view

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I need serious help here, A co-worker left and took the administrators password with them. I really don't want to have to reformat everything, Is there any little trick that might help me out?
I know I'm asking for a big trick but, we all know theoutcome if I can't get into it. Hours of work and that's not the short of it.

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by lordinfidel

Method 1 is getting ERDCommander from SysInternals.

http://www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/locksmith.asp

This method is if you care about the OS.

If you do not care about the OS.

Simply pull the drive. Slap it into another2K machine. As an additional drive.

2K will mount the drive as an additional drive and it should allow you access. If for some reason it does not. Simply go to the root of the drive in my computer. And reset the permissions of the entire drive. You will probably have to take ownership of the drive.

The OS on that drive will be rendered useless. But at least you will have all of the information.

by lordinfidel

Just downloaded and tried it out.

Never new it existed, thx.

Beats out spending the cash for erd commander.

by mrafrohead

Yeah, i've been using this disk for a couple of years, works very well!!!!

Although, I will say that I find it rather peculiar that I posted a reply to this thread back when it was created and it is no longer here...

Hmmmm... Vwewwy cewious....

Mrafrohead

by omie

Is the computer connected to a domain ? If it is connected,you don't need 3rd party software. Just log on to the domain using the Administrator password for your domain and reset the local administrator password.

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