lost Admin Password + Recovery Console

Hey All.

Last night i had to fixed a laptop. The problem was the SP2 was installed and after that windows could not start (blue screen) i fixed problem like that before by going to Recovery Console and uninstalling SP2 - WORKS.

Unfortunately this time Admin password was lost so i couldnt do it. Ive tryd Windows Repair which crashed halfway, I ended up taking HDD out of laptop and bacing it up, taking ownership of all files etc, thn migrated it back to freshed installed windows.

Is there a way that i can performe password recovery (some bootable cd etc) or force to change it. Also i want to be sure that after that files that has been encrypted will be accessible.

Thanks a lot

Chris

http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_passwords.htm

Here is a couple of links that might help.

www.ultimatebootcd.com Has a tool on it that will do it, but I am not positive that it will work in your case. But give it a try anyways

Thanks,

Can you tell me whats the name of this tool

Cheers

pilipk01 said:

Thanks,

Can you tell me whats the name of this tool

Cheers

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

Just be carefull if he uses EFS because he will not be able to retrieve anything that was encrypted with EFS.