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Win2K Problems Please HELP!!!!

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by raharr

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First, I work for the department of juvenile justice in South Carolina. I have teacher that leave there workstations up and student get in a change the admin password. Is there any why to get pass the administrator login and/or change the password?
Second, I have two Win2K workstations that are stuck in a loop and keep rebooting during boot up. I also have some information on them that is needed. Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem so I won't lose everything or can someone tell me howto get the information off?

Thanks in advance.
Russell Harris

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by hinrgman

#1 - Reinstall the operating system, the admin password should be kept secure by you or your IS Staff. The teacher should only have a user password, then the desktop machine will be protected from administative intrusions.

#2 - some software thatwas installed is not W2K compatible. While booting press the F8 key, this will allow you to boot with a diagnostic. If this does not work try holding the shift key during bootup.

by raharr

#1 - Reinstalling is not an option. Has information on computer that is needed.

#2 - Pressing the F8 key or holding the shift key did not work.

by hinrgman

#1 - Reinstall the operating system, the admin password should be kept secure by you or your IS Staff. The teacher should only have a user password, then the desktop machine will be protected from administative intrusions.

#2 - some software thatwas installed is not W2K compatible. While booting press the F8 key, this will allow you to boot with a diagnostic. If this does not work try holding the shift key during bootup.

by hinrgman

#1 - Reinstall the operating system, the admin password should be kept secure by you or your IS Staff. The teacher should only have a user password, then the desktop machine will be protected from administative intrusions.

#2 - some software thatwas installed is not W2K compatible. While booting press the F8 key, this will allow you to boot with a diagnostic. If this does not work try holding the shift key during bootup.

by hinrgman

#1 - Reinstall the operating system, the admin password should be kept secure by you or your IS Staff. The teacher should only have a user password, then the desktop machine will be protected from administative intrusions.

#2 - some software thatwas installed is not W2K compatible. While booting press the F8 key, this will allow you to boot with a diagnostic. If this does not work try holding the shift key during bootup.

by avi_mohod

Hi,
When u install the win 2000 u have opyion of dirctly into win2000 with adminisrator user account and blank password.When u install win 200 u should provide password to administrator account.Secondly u should create a new user who has rights of users only be used for doing normal work.For adminstrative task do login as administrator and when work finishes loff and login as noraml users.This will prevent user from changing the password for adminstrator account.
IF any leaves m/c up and student came changes the password they will change the password of normal user account which can be recoverd login as administrator.
There r the password cracking softwares r present on net.But how rilabe they r I don't know.Best way u should reinstall the os and secure ur adminsrator account and create one normal user account.Also u can do that create another account which should be member of administrator group.So by chance that ur administrator account is hacked u can recover ur paasword by using this account.

About ur secoand problem is that this problem may be compability of any s/w or h/w.To resolve the problem press F8 during boot u and select the opyion last successful booting option.If this oworks then check that u have u add to ur m/c that cause this problem.Remove that s/w.
avi.

by tom_tek

Hi Russ,
You dont have to reinstall the OS
Winternals has a tool to quickly and easily reset the admin password not a cheap answer but very effective.Or i have done this on NT 4 pc's create an " Rdisk /s " of a similar pc and then run that (just the SAM) on the locked pc best to make shure that u don't have a user acc by the same name on the target pc it will also create an administrator.001 profile but you will be able to enter the box and create acc and reset the passwords and move the data into the nea acc.
to get the data off the hard drive set the source drive as a slave drive off another nt box and access the files, because you are not using the os on the source driveand its SAM you can access all the files on it PS there are boot issues if you add an ide drive to a pc that boots from a scsi drive it will want to boot from the ide drive that is part of pc design

by raharr

Thanks for everyone's suggestions, but none of them helped. I had to boot the computer with a DOS boot disk and then run NTFSDOS in order to recover the data. I reimaged the computer afterwards and it worked fine.

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