RE: restore Administrator password

["Raoul Armfield" <armfield () amnh org>]

:Filip,
:
:If you have physical access to the drive then boot with dos 
:(ntfsdos) and go
:to the %winnt%\system32\config folder. Delete the SAM file and when you
:reboot the machine you will have no password for the 
:administrator account.
:Keep in mind that this will delete any other users on the 
:system. You just
:need to recreate them with the same names and they will be fine again.
:

Unless there are encrypted files or folders on that server in which case
these files are lost.  

Your best bet probably is what others have suggested, the P Nordahl's
password recovery disk.  You can google for the location.

Raoul


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