Win 2000 problems help?


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Okay, I am the administartor and I have forgoten my password. How do i reload win2000, ie: how to get to C: prompt etc. I do not have a floppy disc drive. Can I reload without reformatting?

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Are there no other local accounts on the computer that are in the administrator group?

This comes from Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q258289

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...b;en-us;Q258289

To Reset the Administrator's Password

Log on to the computer as a user with administrative privileges, and perform the steps listed above for the Administrator account.

If the Administrator password needs to be reset, and there are no other users with administrative access, there is no way to recover the password and the operating system will need to be reinstalled.

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Originally posted by athlon  

wd40, I do not have a floppy.

You don't have a floppy drive on your server? That's kind of strange since 99.9% of all PC's/Servers have floppy drives. Any good admin has a floppy drive in their server for recovery disks, startup disks and for things like you're having problems with. If you put in a floppy drive and use one of those boot disks it is very easy to reset the admin password.

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