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Re: [PLUG] Linux boot disk to replace XP Admin password?
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On 19-Jan-2003, kam@kamsalisbury.com wrote:
> Uh... I have tried this utility. It did not reset the Administrator
password
> to anything usable. In fact, on an XP Pro SP1 box it rendered the
> Administrator password uneditable by normal MMC means.
> I did not try just blanking the password though... so that may work. I
did
> not try the utility on and NT or 2K boxes either, so the utility may work
> there as well. I guess I am trying to say "Be careful and be sure to make
a
> backup of the data before trying this utility". If you cannot get into
the
> box to make a backup happen then slaving the physical disk in another
> machine may work well enough to get at the data -- since it would be
mounted
> via a box you 'can' get into. Also, this utility does not support
> Microsoft's software RAID at all. The XPpro box I tried the utility on
had a
> normal NTFS partition and not the new NTFS partition type so... I am not
> sure if the utility works on NTFS Dynamic Disks either. Again, be
careful.
Warnings are always good practice - I probably should have included a few.
The
disk itself is festooned with them...no guarantees.
That said: I've only used it to blank passwords. I have used it
successfully
on NT 4, 2000 Workstation, 2000 Advanced Server, and XP Pro. Now that you
mention it, I did once try to change the pw, rather than blank it, and it
failed. (It didn't seem to kill anything, and I just ran the disk again
and
blanked it.)
I've never tried Dynamic Disk support either, though I've noticed
experimental
support for it in the kernel. If I were going to try it, I'd be very
nervous.
>> You're looking for pnordahl's offline NT password and registry editor
boot
>> disk, I expect:
>>
>> http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html
Cheers,
Paul
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