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Strange situation here. I seemed to have locked myself out of a laptop I am working on.

It's a Win2k machine NTFS partition. I know that you can wipe the accounts and reset administrator by wiping the SAM files. However, I seem to be at a loss on how to actually do that.

Using a DOS boot disk doesn't allow you to access NTFS partitions, correct? And I can't boot into Safe Mode because it requires you to logon. I'm not real familiar with DOS, so is there a utility that would allow me to see the partition? I'm not quite sure what I'm missing, but I'd appreciate input.

TIA

Honz! Long time!

I saw a thread and judg3 answered the problems in it. I even used it once myself so far. Hope this helps.

Looks like you may need to email him for that floppy image.

http://www.pcabusers.net/forums/showthr ... t=password

ya, I know it's been awhile. I still try to come by and 'ghost' (read the posts) but it's hard when I don't have a connection at home.

thx, I tried the ntfs reader from ntfs.com, but that only allows you to read and not write or delete.
Just pm'ed judg3 hopefully he still has it

Hey

Check out this program at http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

It works on XP for sure. Basically it uses Linux to hack the SAM files and you can reset the account and password! Creating a blank password is usually the easiest.

thx to all. I did finally get it up and running. At least now I know how to get into locked computers. My own of course...