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Thread ID: 20382	2002-06-04 06:18:00	win2000 administrater gone AWAL, how we get past the password?	Guest (0)	Press F1

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52360	2002-06-04 06:18:00	i have been asked to do a repair on a win 2000 machine where the admistrater has gone AWAL, we are prepared to rebuild the system from sratch, but need to get data out. Upon putting an 80gig drive on the system for the purpose of backing the needed data, we find ourselves locked out. Am considering building system on the 80, and getting data over that way, but this seems long winded..... Any ideas???	Guest (0)
52361	2002-06-04 09:36:00	There is a free tool to do this. Download www.nttoolbox.com When you boot with this disk, it will reset the Administrator password.	Guest (0)
52362	2002-06-04 10:28:00	Thankyou for that, i look forward to using that tommorow, as i get the internet gateway, and the other machines to see the new storage server.... Much appreciated!	Guest (0)
52363	2002-06-05 04:18:00	And the new administrator password will be written down and put in the safe (or glued under the coin tray of the petty cash box), won't it?	Guest (0)
52364	2002-06-05 12:18:00	Do you have access to another Win2k machine. You can connect the hard drive onto that machine login as admin and copy the data straight off it then just reformat it and reinstall and that should be it.	Guest (0)
52365	2002-06-05 13:32:00	Yeah i have access to a small network, 5 machines all up. The first machine was just the starting point... I've allready rebuilt the first machine, thrown the data we needed to keep on the second, and moved it back. It's been a learning experiance, the rest of the network saw machine 1, and was happy to move the data back into it's shared folder in the morning, but refused to see the shared resources on that machine in the afternoon, even though machine 1 was happy to pick up or send email most of the arvo via the same network that seemed to be snubbing it.. I gave up in fear that my head would explode, but am going back tommorow to make the machines happy with eachother.	Guest (0)
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