Re: Rebuilding notebook 2nd step

[Jacques Sabrie <sabrie@mitre.org>]

Lee,

I have used this one frequently and with great success.  Three time in
the last two days even, all on XP.  Never set a new password, just make
it blank.

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

You can pretty much take the defaults, but have to use the * to blank
the password.  Sometimes I forget to read the print...

Good luck!

Jacques

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 10:57 -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> OK, the Knoppix copy process seems to have been successful. I was surprised 
> to see that the new HD actually booted [without rebuilding the boot 
> record]! Unfortunately, logging in with a valid user ID gets past the login 
> dialog, but immediately logs out.
> 
> My original assumption that the next step would be to boot the XP CD & 
> 'repair' the partition to rebuild the boot record(s), .. but it turns out 
> XP does not require the installing user to setup an administrator account! 
> The system will run just fine with a named user as the administrator, but 
> any command-line tools (like XP Repair) have no administrator account to login.
> 
> Has anyone used a Linux rescue CD that WILL actually CHANGE an XP 
> administrator password? I have tried numerous versions in the past, and 
> most worked for NT, but none of the ones I have tried for XP have ever 
> successfully change the administrator PW.
> 
> 	TIA,
> 
> 	Lee
> 
> 
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