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    Administrator Password recovery in 2000

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    by tmjeevantm ·

    Is it possible to recover administrator password in Windows 2000 without the help of third party utility ?

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    • #2692717

      Reply To: Administrator Password recovery in 2000

      by cgriffith318 ·

      In reply to Administrator Password recovery in 2000

      No I do not believe so.

    • #2692714

      Reply To: Administrator Password recovery in 2000

      by jschein ·

      In reply to Administrator Password recovery in 2000

      HUH

      Sure, Guess it…

      Other than that, not unless your John Edwards and that pc belonged to someone who recently passed away.

    • #2692713

      Reply To: Administrator Password recovery in 2000

      by ask_anurag ·

      In reply to Administrator Password recovery in 2000

      Hi,

      Well it is not possible to recover the password but you can reset the password if you have NTFSDOS Professional utility.With that utility first boot in msdos mode then you can reset it.

      Thanks and Regards.

      Anurag.

    • #2692536

      Reply To: Administrator Password recovery in 2000

      by jackup_in ·

      In reply to Administrator Password recovery in 2000

      Hi,

      Boot through a Win98 bootable floppy and use a third party software if ur c:\ is in Ntfs partition then find the Sam file under system/system32 folder then rename the sam file and reboot it shouldn’t ask u for password.

      Mahesh.K

    • #2731261

      Reply To: Administrator Password recovery in 2000

      by wlbowers ·

      In reply to Administrator Password recovery in 2000

      No! This is to answer your question at face value. You cannot recover a lost password.

      The password is stored in a hidden, encrypted system file called sam ,no extention. It usually hides here: winnt\system32\config

      Now you will want to know what your options are right.

      If the disk is formatted in fat32 you can boot to a floppy and rename the sam file. Then on boot the system will create a NEW administrator file. You will note I said new.

      Of course if the disk is ntfs then you must install it on a 2000 machine as a slave, then do the do.

      You can find on the internet what amounts to a linux boot disk that will allow you to change the password.

      Winternals had a utility that will do the same thing. Change the password not view it.

      So if you have lost the password you can recover from it with out reloading the OS.

      Good Luck Lee

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