Win 2000 password???

Sid Coleman · Apr 9, 2003

OK, I pulled a good one! While trying to add a network connection to my (work) laptop, I somehow added a new login password. Now the darn thing boots up to the "press CTL-ALT-DEL" prompt, has my regular user name, but when I enter my pw, does not accept it. Also, when I hit the "additional data" (whenever that key is that should show more data), it no longer shows my domain, just prompts me if I want a dialup connection?

Crap-I hate W2K!!!!

Any suggestions?

DjD · Apr 9, 2003

Sounds like your login account is on the domain and you took the unit off the domain. You'll need the local administrator account or another account with local admim rights to get back into the system and put it back on the domain.

You mentioned work, do you have tech help that would have or know the local admin account password? If you are your own tech support you can boot off the win2000 install disk and reinstall or repair the OS and it should prompt you to rebuild the administrator account with a new password if it's like NT4.0.

It is easy to put it back on the domain once you get logged on and have a domain account with admin rights. If you get back in and need help getting on the domain post back and we can go through that...

If you keep current repair disk's you can use the space bar prompt to restore last known good config but if you don't have a current repair disk I believe you will loose any applications installed since the last one was taken...

Sid Coleman · Apr 9, 2003

Thanks Dennis-was hoping someone knew a 'backdoor' into the darn thing. Guess I'll hear about it in the am

TronDD · Apr 9, 2003

There is a hack to clear the admin password. If you IT dept has that password, don't touch it. If it's supposed to be your resposibility then I'll see if I can find it for you.

We have it at work but I won't be back there until the weekend.

Tim.

TronDD · Apr 9, 2003

I can't find it as a disk but I found what's on it and some instructions. You need a DOS boot disk with a utility on it that lets you read the NTFS file system then you delete a file to clear the passwords.

Tim.

lev · Apr 9, 2003

You can get an NTFS reader for DOS from NTFS.com

http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm

It's free, and effective.

TronDD · Apr 9, 2003

Only reads, though. Won't clear the password for you. You need write access.

This is what I was looking for:

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

Cecil · Apr 9, 2003

Originally posted by Sid Coleman:
Crap-I hate W2K!!!!

Just to mess this up a bit, do you also hate your Chevelle when you run out of gas? It's not W2K that messed up your password...

faulkkev · Apr 10, 2003

you can use the ntf.com info or a linux bootdisk. You'll have to find the exact path of the password. You can also download password programs that are around. You can run a repair on the os and as long as you never made an emergency repair disk it will revert to the orginal local admin password then you can just rejoin it to the domain. I usually on my system make a seperate account for situations like this. It is a back door account. I either make the password password or something I can't forget. Also make sure no one knows the account exist.

Gene McGill · Apr 10, 2003

Try logging on as "administrator" without a password. If there is no domain listed, I would assume that you are just logging on to the pc.

Matt Smith · Apr 10, 2003

Originally posted by TronDD:
Only reads, though. Won't clear the password for you. You need write access.

This is what I was looking for:

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

Yeah that's the tool. I have this here and it works good for me but on a few system it has been known to mess things up. Again if this is a work box leave it alone or you WILL be out of a job (or worse).

Sid Coleman · Apr 12, 2003

Thanks all-found a co-worked with the password

got it all taken care of. Whew-they're anal regarding the laptops

Thanks again!

Sid Coleman · Apr 12, 2003

Originally posted by Cecil:
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