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Windows 2000 logon bypass
Hello Experts, I bought a Dell Latitude loaded with Windows 2000 Pro off of Ebay. The computer logon will not let me in and the person I bought it from doesn't remember the password. The user is "Administrator" by default. How do I reset it, or bypass, without reformatting or losing all the info on the hard drive? Additional bonus points for quick fix! Please help!!!
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Add a second harddrive and change the orignal password locked harddrive as a slave to the other harddrive. Then go and find the SAM file and delete it. THis will take care of it.
If you have any Linux experience, you can boot the computer with Knoppix Linux
http://www.knoppix.net/
and extract the .SAM file (the file where windows stores the password.) otherwise you can also use knoppix to copy any important files you need to a flash disk or external hard drive.
You may end up haveing to reformat the Hard Drive and re install windows.
http://www.knoppix.net/
and extract the .SAM file (the file where windows stores the password.) otherwise you can also use knoppix to copy any important files you need to a flash disk or external hard drive.
You may end up haveing to reformat the Hard Drive and re install windows.
I've put various methods of Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 Password Recovery on my website see,
http://www.petenetlive.com/Tech/Windows/WinGen/passwordrecovery.htm
Pete