re: Password? Monday, January 19, 2004 at 12:31 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Adam Bradley (8786 messages posted) "This tip works for NTFS" and "Boot the PC to DOS" are contradictory an MS-DOS boot disk can't access an NTFS partition regards, Adam Bradley On Monday, January 19, 2004 at 6:57 am, BKW wrote: >Win NT\2K\XP Admin password hack.... >This tip works for NTFS \ DOS formatted hdd's. >Get\make a DOS boot disc. (see www.bootdisc.com) >Boot the PC to DOS. >Drill down to C:\Windows\System32\Config. >Delete the SAM, SAM.log, SAM.etc...(not all pc's have multiple SAM files). >Removed the boot disc and reboot the PC. >Ctrl+Alt+Del. >User Id - Administrator. Password - . Press enter. >This tip should log you onto the pc with Administrator access level. So you can create >a new user id, change passwords, delete stuff, etc... Use at your risk... Written in response to: re: Password? (BKW: Monday, January 19, 2004 at 6:57 am) Responses to this message: re: Password? (BKW: Monday, January 19, 2004 at 2:03 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Password? (Adam X: Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 7:56 pm) re: Password? (triplate: Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 8:13 pm) re: Password? (Ricer46: Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 8:39 pm) re: Password? (triplate: Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 8:41 pm) re: Password? (barry: Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 9:25 pm) re: Password? (John L: Mon, Jan 19, 2004, 6:35 am) re: Password? (Tehk: Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 10:10 pm) re: Password? (BKW: Mon, Jan 19, 2004, 6:57 am) re: Password? (Adam Bradley: Mon, Jan 19, 2004, 12:31 pm) re: Password? (BKW: Mon, Jan 19, 2004, 2:03 pm) re: Password? (Adam Bradley: Mon, Jan 19, 2004, 2:19 pm) re: Password? (aljernon805: Tue, Jan 20, 2004, 8:50 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum