trying to reset XP password( zing or paul maybe you could help)
 

HI I have a cd which is bootable with a program on which is surpose to reset your admin program but when I booted it up it picks up my second harddrive which is an IDE harddrive an does not pick up my primary Sata drive which has xp winstalled on it.

any ideaS?

Re: trying to reset XP password( zing or paul maybe you could help)
 

Problem as I see it your sata controller isnt native and needs a driver when installing windows etc to be seen.this I would imagine is why the program cant see the windows install.

Re: trying to reset XP password( zing or paul maybe you could help)
 

Think I know the program and Zing is correct :( Tried it myself lol

Re: trying to reset XP password( zing or paul maybe you could help)
 

any way i can get it to work?

Re: trying to reset XP password( zing or paul maybe you could help)
 

There maybe a setting in your BIOS to set your SATA controllers to IDE compatible mode (not a good idea if you have arrays though :))

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arrays? I have a dell if that helps.

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got into bios by pressing f2 or del key at boot and hunt around for sata settings saying either raid ata ide or base mode if it says raid change it to any of the other options and try again

Re: trying to reset XP password( zing or paul maybe you could help)
 

Hi
I did that and found a menu called Sata Operation

Well under this menu it had these two options

RAID Autodetect/ ATA: Raid if signed drive otherwise ATA
RAID on : Sata is configured for RAID Every Boot.

It was set on the the first one "RAID Autodetect..." when I changed it to "RAID on" it came up saying:

"Settings change!

Attention!!! changing this setting may prevent OS from booting or require reinstalling. Do you want to contiune?"

I did not do it as I was not sure if it was safe or not..... any idea if is would be safe? or what it does?

Re: trying to reset XP password( zing or paul maybe you could help)
 

Yes it'll be safe, do it before using the password cracker and change it back after, I say this without any prejudice :)

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any one else to confirm its safe?

Re: trying to reset XP password( zing or paul maybe you could help)
 

Hold on a sec : This reminds of when I had to do this to a corp Win2k3 server :

Whats the CD you're using : I bet it's linux based as the one I used was linux based but I had to also load up the SCSI drivers before it could mount the RAID and simply NULL the administrators password.

Whats the CD ?

Re: trying to reset XP password( zing or paul maybe you could help)
 

yes its a linux based one

Re: trying to reset XP password( zing or paul maybe you could help)
 

Yeh but whats it called !!! :)


: I'm sure I used it too successfully... The only trouble I had was that I had to slap the SCSI drivers on a floppy and load them into the kernel once that was done the cd went ahead and nulled the admin password.

Re: trying to reset XP password( zing or paul maybe you could help)
 

He does not know what it is called 'cos I don't and i gave it him. :D

Re: trying to reset XP password( zing or paul maybe you could help)
 

:p:

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LOL lemme google for it.

Anyway how confident are you with using linux commandline as the CD method is definitely one of the safest but also technically awkward

Re: trying to reset XP password( zing or paul maybe you could help)
 

This could end so badly......................

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http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_admini...password.htm#1

This is what I used I believe cos I was messing with floppies not a cd

create 2 floppies 1 is the kernel second are the drivers.

Yeh if you dont know linux it could be painful....

But a heartly very best of luck to you

Re: trying to reset XP password( zing or paul maybe you could help)
 

swoop could u pm CrC-3rr0r vbmenu_register("postmenu_34156064", true); your link to it?

Re: trying to reset XP password( zing or paul maybe you could help)
 

Gooowwwwwon u know u wanna :)

What I did was I backed up the data from the RAID onto a spare IDE drive before NULLing the admin password.

Everything went smoothly except when after 3 days I decided to create a dynamic disk and get RAID working properly trouble was that the disk failed when I did this LOL

luckily I had a backup :)

Re: trying to reset XP password( zing or paul maybe you could help)
 

not very confident but giving it a try by read it carefully

Re: trying to reset XP password( zing or paul maybe you could help)
 

Just make those 2 floppies mate : It's all straight forward and the utility warns you before making any changes.

I'm confident that it'll pick up your SATA raid as it's a commonly supported driver unlike the expensive RAID controller I was dealing with a couple of years back.

Re: trying to reset XP password( zing or paul maybe you could help)
 

will then have to wait for monday as i dont have spare/any floppies lying about so will get some from the office

Re: trying to reset XP password( zing or paul maybe you could help)
 

Yeh best chill before committing.

I remember what like seems many years ago spending all night trying to get a graphics card to work just so that I could play quake. 8 o'clock in the morning tired and fed up I thought I'd try something different....

15 minutes later missus found me dazing into the distance with tears in my eyes. Lost 27gigs of prime data going right back to the late 80s and early 90s.

I still think about it at times and do miss the first ever webpage I wrote.

Thing is that from that experience u would expect me to be ever more cautious well the opposite is now true - I'm more aggressive but at the same time ensure I know what I'm doing AND I NEVER WORK TIRED. Its kinda like driving when you're tired - not wise no matter how good you are.

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PM sent

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Standard contract rates ? £75ph exc VAT(introductory 25% off offer)

Oooooooooooo ok I'll take a look at it

Re: trying to reset XP password( zing or paul maybe you could help)
 

A man's got to earn a living :D

£75 ph - you must live/work in London - best I've been offered outside London is £70 ph.

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Yup barely covers the cost of getting on the bus and running around on the tube...

PS guys I have tried your CD and indeed its the same one as the link I posted....

************************************************** *************************
* *
* Windows NT/2k/XP Change Password Utility / Registry Editor / Boot CD *
* *
* (c) 1998-2004 Petter Nordahl-Hagen. Freely noncommercial distributable *
* See docs & license file on floppy for more info on license and credits *
* Linux kernel & utilities (c) lots of people, freely distributable *
* Encryption library by the OpenSSL project *
* Thanks to EZ for bootfloppystuff *
* *
* DISCLAIMER: THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTIES! *
* THE AUTHOR CAN NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE *
* CAUSED BY THE (MIS)USE OF THIS SOFTWARE *
* *
* NOTE: The 'chntpw' binary contains cryptograhic algorithms, *
* like DES and others, which may be illegal to re-export *
* from your country. *
* *
* More info at: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ *
* Email : pnordahl@eunet.no *
* *

---------- Post added at 21:28 ---------- Previous post was at 21:27 ----------

Looks like an old version though .....

Get a newer version with more upto date drivers

------
edit your version is from March 2005

mount cd050303.iso /media/iso -t iso9660 -o loop

root@vaio-xxxx-net:/media/iso# ls -al
total 2764
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 2005-03-03 20:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2006-11-11 21:24 ..
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 2005-03-03 20:21 boot.cat
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1720 2005-03-03 20:21 boot.msg
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1859514 2005-03-03 20:21 initrd.gz
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 9400 2005-03-01 16:19 isolinux.bin
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 219 2004-08-01 12:58 isolinux.cfg
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 949300 2005-02-26 21:54 vmlinuz

Re: trying to reset XP password( zing or paul maybe you could help)
 

Hi

I managed to get some disk but I am not sure what to do.

Any help much appreciated.

Perhaps maybe a simplier way

Re: trying to reset XP password( zing or paul maybe you could help)
 

Just a thought - I am assuming it's your user password you can't remember

It may be obvious, but worth a try

boot the machine normally, when it gets to the welcome screen where it lists the users, hit CTRL+ALT+DEL twice, the login screen will change, enter the username Administrator - leave the password blank, and hit enter

only works if the admin password is blank (which it should NEVER be, but a lot of computer preinstall CDs do so) but if it is blank, it will log you in normally

Re: trying to reset XP password( zing or paul maybe you could help)
 

Thanks Lord Nikon Just what I was after without hacking my PC apart. It may of been obvious but a really good safty feature if you the only one using the machine. :)