I have a customer who needs to recover or remove passwords from an NT installation. I will explain fully off-list to anyone who can help. Ian Cousins Director, PhoneNet - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
There are linux boot disks which frob the registry and reset the administrator password http://www.nttoolbox.com/ for more details. --cw On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:23:23AM +1300, PhoneNet wrote: I have a customer who needs to recover or remove passwords from an NT installation. I will explain fully off-list to anyone who can help. Ian Cousins Director, PhoneNet - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 03:02:42PM +1300, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
There are linux boot disks which frob the registry and reset the administrator password
for more details.
Alternatively you could just boot from a DOS floppy and make appropriate use of the "fdisk" and "format" commands. Should remove any passwords which are present quite efficiently. Joe - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
At 11:23 AM 11/16/2001 +1300, PhoneNet wrote:
I have a customer who needs to recover or remove passwords from an NT installation. I will explain fully off-list to anyone who can help.
While Joe's fdisk solution is the most appropriate, I found this in my email....
Brian Eardley-Wilmot Computer Forensics NZ Ltd www.datarecovery.co.nz Phone: +64 9 35 99 424 Mobile: +64 21 45 45 00 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DATA RECOVERY IS OUR BUSINESS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our task is to successfully recover lost, trashed, deleted, damaged, hidden or password-protected files from a computer system after an accidental, deliberate or malicious action or a virus attack.
richard.naylor(a)citylink.co.nz - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
My thanks to everyone who responded... the client had been in an accident and while he could remember the bios password and activate the system he could not remember the logon password. The situation was hampered by the lack of a floppy drive on the laptop (HD and CD only). Many different suggestions were proposed and tried - in the end we reinstalled to the c: drive (data fortunately on D:) and everything seems to work Ok (touch wood)... at least the data he was after was still on D: so he's happy... Ian - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
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