re: Win2000 admin password loss
Monday, March 6, 2006 at 11:00 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by mysh
(2 messages posted)
Hi Dex,
thanks for the advice. I have a really stupid question - how do I burn an ISO image?
I have a CDBurnerXPPro3, and I asked it to burn an ISO image on a regular disk, however
my pc does not want to boot from it.
Thanks again,
Mysh
On Monday, March 6, 2006 at 7:52 pm, DEX wrote:
>mysh
>Many ways to do what you want to do.
>This is what I recommend you do.
>1st reset the Admin.password and get into win2k and get things in order b/4 you
>move up to XP if that's what you want to do.
>see the link to the software to reset it below ▼
>I don't recommend a Upgrade to XP from win2k, always do a clean install of OS is
>the best way to go.
>You will just need to take my word for it.
>I do recommend a dual boot system (win2k and XP) so you can besure if you like XP
>b/4 you drop win2k.
>The XP will do all the work for you or you can use a 3rd party software program
like
>Part.Magic 8.0 to setup a new partition to put XP on or you can use a slave drive
>also.
>When you setup the partition for XP use the same format you are now using for win2k
> (NTFS or the fat32)
>Once you have XP on the machine then reinstall the programs you want to keep and
>then move the DATA over from the win2k OS .(doc,mp3,jpg,email,address book,etc.)
>reset below ▼
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> Austrumi (v0.9.2 - December 2004)
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>Austrumi is a Linux bootable ISO image for recovering NT passwords and other cool
>tools and methods, sized for Business Card size CD media (50Mb).
>It allows you to change any password, including that of the Administrator, on a
partition
>occupied by Windows NT, Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
>Simply boot the CD and when you get to the initial boot prompt, type:
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> nt_pass
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>This will launch a console utility that will detect Windows partitions on the hard
>disk and provide you with a menu to modify any user or Administrator passwords on
>the Windows system.
>It will even give access to the Windows registry for recovery purposes.
>Quite a handy utility to keep in your wallet (AUSTRUMI is small enough to fit on
>a business card-size CD) if you are unfortunate enough to having to deal with Windows
>machines in your line of work.
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>Read more at http://sourceforge.net/projects/austrumi
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>Download links:
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>Austrumi v0.9.2 (ISO file, 50.9mb)
>http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/austrumi/austrumi-0.9.2.iso?download
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>also read the Related articles under the Austrumi item.
>http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm#2
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>τΏτ DEX/Bj
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> You can also help some one :>)
>Please revisit your post so that others on this forum will know if the solutions
>were helpful or not helpful .
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