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

[The Jackal]

Originally Posted by swoop101

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

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

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

[The Jackal]

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

[funkyCable]

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

[The Jackal]

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

[funkyCable]

Originally Posted by CrC-3rr0r

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

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

[The Jackal]

Originally Posted by funkyCable

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

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.

[funkyCable]

Originally Posted by CrC-3rr0r

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.

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

[The Jackal]

Originally Posted by funkyCable

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

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.

[swoop101]

PM sent

[The Jackal]

Originally Posted by swoop101

PM sent

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

Oooooooooooo ok I'll take a look at it

Originally Posted by CrC-3rr0r

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

Oooooooooooo ok I'll take a look at it

A man's got to earn a living

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

[The Jackal]

Originally Posted by foreverwar

A man's got to earn a living

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

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

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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

[funkyCable]

Hi

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

Any help much appreciated.

Perhaps maybe a simplier way

[Lord Nikon]

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