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by wbf

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Hi I have removed my password on my w2k os,
Iam dual booting w98 and 2k on the same drive c:
I cannot use 2k now, but I can open my winnt folder on the c:drive, is it possible to access users and passwords in winnt to fix this,
I have tried, r console, erd disk, 4 booth flopies
but I only get as far as the screen that asks for the password, also I have tried bootloging and safe mode, could this mean a reinstall,
Thanks in advance

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by plewisgm

Follow these steps to create a new admin account.

1. Take out the hard drive with the NTFS file system from the computer, and put it into a PC (with Win2000 and NTFS too) as a slave.
2. Back up the files on the slave on the master hard drive,then erase the SAM file of the slave hard drive.
3. Put the hard drive back as master on the computer where you took it out.
4. Start the computer, and you now have a new administrator account with a blank password.

I hope this helps!

Patrick

by gigelul

I'm curious, how do you remove the password?
Maybe here is other issue and other solution.

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