Password Changed

From: Joel (jlrush@pol.net)
Date: 07/30/02 

From: "Joel" <jlrush@pol.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:33:59 -0700

Our adminstrator for our small company left, but before
walking out the door he changed the boot password on his
computer. Is there anyway to get past the boot up
password without knowing it or do we have to reinstall
2000 professional to gain acces to his computer?
Thanks for any help.