Re: forgotten password problem

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_nospam-comcast.net)
Date: 02/26/05

  • Next message: Jeff Cochran: "Re: Hacked Workstations" 
    Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:10:07 -0600

    There are free utilities that can be used to reset the built in
    administrator account to users that have full physical access to a computer.
    Otherwise simply put the hard drive in another computer as a secondary/slave
    hard drive to copy the files. That will not work however if any files are
    encrypted via EFS which will require the use of the user which encrypted the
    files on an XP Pro computer. For a W2K computer, EFS files probably would be
    available to whoever can logon as the built in administrator account. The
    other problem you may run into if you put the drive in another computer is
    that you may have to logon as an administrator to "take ownership" of the
    files so that you can give yourself NTFS permissions to access the files.
    The links below may help. --- Steve

    http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm
    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421 --- work
    the same in Windows 2000

    "Lisa Simpson" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
    news:OzvRl%23AHFHA.588@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
    >I have to get some work files off an old computer; problem is when it boots
    > up it asks for a password that no-one remembers; is there any way to get
    > in
    > to get the files off the harddrive?
    >
    >

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