Re: Lock Out Question

From: Shenan Stanley (newshelper_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/12/05 

Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:36:25 -0500

Dan Johnson wrote:
> We recently had our Win 2000 Domain controller crash, and were
> required to reinstall from scratch.
>
> One member of the old domain was a WinXP Pro box. Since we
> reinstalled the Win 2000 domain controller (and thereby created a new
> domain with the same name as the old domain), we have not been able
> to logon to the WinXP box. If we try to logon using new domain
> credentials, it tells us it can't find the domain (which makes sense
> since the old domain no longer exists). Unfortunately, we cannot
> logon to the local machine, because nobody here remembers the admin
> password.
>
> Is there a way to get around this problem without having to completely
> reinstall XP on this box? We would like to preserve whatever settings
> existed for the user on this box.
>
> Thanks for any pointers!

Many password hacks out there.. Here are a couple. Something like the
Ultimate Boot CD for Windows with the right extras would be great to have
around to.. Not to mention something like ERD commander.

Look here:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/lostpass.htm

and/or try these..
Hack your password:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

Another Password Hack:
http://www.thomasmathiesen.com/itak/html/software.html

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