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225647 2005-08-31 11:34:00 I did - it didn't work Twelvevolts (5457)
225648 2005-08-31 22:18:00 BDH: Thanks heaps! That trick worked great

Sadly thou lsass is now complaining about the passwords not matching or something and it wont let me continue.

I cant even do a "repair" either, gives me that error after first reboot.

Any suggestions?
Chilling_Silence (9)
225649 2005-08-31 23:10:00 Yep, you'll have to go the whole hog
You're used to command line seeing your a linux guru so shouldn't take long
I had this all written down to easily understand and can't find it now so you'll have to read thru MS Blurb and take out the bits you want
You won't have to do the "system" file
Just the "sam" and "security"
Don't do the "software" unless it's a last resort as this will stuff up all your apps
I never bother making a tmp dir either I just get in and do it as I posted above
The only changes I make are to the file names
Full blurb here:
support.microsoft.com
hth
bartsdadhomer (80)
225650 2005-09-01 05:15:00 Will check it out.

Appreciate the help, thanks :-)
Chilling_Silence (9)
225651 2005-09-03 09:14:00 Had no luck with that... Kept asking me for the Administrator password, and I had no idea what it was

Got the data off that I needed, and formatted

Cheers


Chill.
Chilling_Silence (9)
225652 2005-09-03 11:23:00 I tried that and it didn't work - and the only way I can access my drive is using Knoppix. Kind of cute really that I need a Linux CD to access my windows installation, but haven't been able to transfer the files to a flash drive. Reinstalling looks like the only way forward. Twelvevolts (5457)
225653 2005-09-03 11:28:00 As long as the Thumbdrive isnt formatted with NTFS you should be perfectly fine :)

Just click on the desktop Icon for the Windows drive

To mount the thumbdrive RW you'll need to:
mkdir /mnt/thumbdrive
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/thumbdrive

That should do the trick :)

Cheers


Chill.
Chilling_Silence (9)
225654 2005-09-03 12:09:00 I stumbled across how to transfer the files and now I'm happily filling up the drive with the stuff I didn't want to lose. Fortunately 98% of the drive was backed up anyway but of course Windows always crashes at the most inconvenient of times. Twelvevolts (5457)
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