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Originally Posted by farmerjoe
Your idea for a second drive is a good one, but if he boots into win2k, he might not be able to access the data , NTFS permissions are funny that way. What he should do is boot from a live Linux CD, mount the hard drive, and then copy everything in the "documents and settings" folder to either a CD, another partition on the hard drive, a second hard drive or an external drive of some kind (flash drives are in gigs of capacity these days)
Then he should try to re-set the adminstrator password. there are ways to do this with Linux.
Recover Administrator's password
Thats the best howto I could find after searching for a few minutes, but there are more options if some one is willing to dig. |
Thats a good link. Problem is that I don't think she has a floppy. She could make a bootable CD with the application on it to run. Or if she can boot to USB then make a bootable thumbdrive with the application on it. The nice thing about your solution is that it looks like its free. The problem with it is that it cannot change XP Home & Prof: up to SP1. The Live Linux option is good as well as long as it has the drivers for her CD drive and that her CD drive is writable. Then she could at least copy her data off and then rebuild the system.