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I have no administrator password!!!!!!!!

I have Windows2000 Advanced Server.
I have forgotten its Administrator password. I can not install or delete a programme from my computer without that password. How can I resolve my problem without formatting the windows. As I want not to delete Windows.
Thanx

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CrazyOne

See if this helps

Instructions
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html
image files
http://ntpass.blaa.net/bd011022.zip (1.4MB - Bootdisk image, date 011022)
http://ntpass.blaa.net/sc011022.zip (~700KB) - SCSI-drivers (011022)
image writer
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/rawrite2.zip

Another one
Change administrator password on NT/2000, without knowing it!!! Bootdisk...
http://www.thomasmathiesen.com/itak/html/software.html
image file
http://www.thomasmathiesen.com/filez/sw/external/linuxbootimage.zip
image writer
http://www.thomasmathiesen.com/filez/sw/external/imagewriter.zip

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Or you could, if you have a FAT32 file system, just boot to a Win98 bootdisk and rename the SAM file (registry Hive) in the C:\WINNT\system32\config folder to something else. Of course this will remove all accounts on the system and you will need to rebuild them.

The Crazy One

mikecr

I've used this many, many times and will vouch for it.

http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/product.cfm?id=265

narendrakumar1978

Hi,

Good questions,

I will tell you one good and easy solutions.If u can boot ur server in a dos mode then just on command prompt type

net user administrator mars /y

here administrator is user and mars is password.

Now restart server and enter the password as mars and later u can change this password.

tell me if u have any problem.

narendra

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