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by Member 32254067

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any one have any suggestions as to how to change the admin password to a windows 2k standalone server. I have used a couple of winternal tools and O & O software and have been unable to get this completed. The machine internaly have 2 scsi drives mirrored so if i was to use a boot device it has to boot to dos and have drivers for the card to access the drives. Now get this the card is so old that it does not have any dos drivers available for it. so i am stuck.. any suggestions??

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by gigelul

I assume that your work in a network.
Login with Domain account on this server or other workstation\server.
Open User Manager for domain and from menu User\select domain, type the name of your standalone server (\\ServerName). You will see all local accounts for that standalone server and you will can change password

by gigelul

If you don't work in a network try to put one of your HDD in other machine, save data, put it back and perfom a new install.

by gigelul

Standalone server also can be in a network. I'm working on a standalone server and also in a network.
Soppose you find a dos driver for your card you can't do more than see the partitions and if your OS was installed on FAT16 you can read the data.But you can't pass the password.
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-see comments on my previous answer

by Member 32254067

this will not work.. the server was standalone. let me clarify this, it was not on any network. It has no nic, it is a server that i cannot get onto in order to break its password...

by tldk

if there's another user with admin rights login as them then change password

by ninet4

It amazes me how many people do not know about this tool. There is a bootdisk that you can create. It actually runs as a linux shell that allows you direct access to the system registry. Sounds scary, but if you accept the defaults, you will get right where you need to be. Allows you to change local admin password without knowing the original. Also allows you to change other local user passwords. Follow this link to the download and usage instructions. They also have a large database of SCSI controller drivers. You don't need a DOS driver for your SCSI controller, NT driver will work.

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

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