Bob
Thu Dec 27 07:37:40 PST 2007
Pegasus (MVP) wrote:
> "Bob H" <bob@despammer.com> wrote in message
> news:fl0e91$2o0a$1@energise.enta.net...
>> Pegasus (MVP) wrote:
>>> "Bob H" <bob@despammer.com> wrote in message
>>> news:fl08l2$2e08$1@energise.enta.net...
>>>> Pegasus (MVP) wrote:
>>>>> "Bob H" <bob@despammer.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:fl031a$243i$1@energise.enta.net...
>>>>>> For some strange reason my administrator password was set to blank??,
>>>>>> and now I can't login to win2k as admin, as it won't accept a blank
>>>>>> password.
>>>>>> I have tried logging in as admin in safe mode but same thing.
>>>>>> I am admin in my winXP box, so is there any way I can set an admin
>>>>>> password in win2k?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> The usual way is to use the alternative admin account,
>>>>> which most people establish in much the same way as
>>>>> they have a second set of keys for their car. If this is
>>>>> not an option then this boot disk might help:
>>>>>
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html
>>>> Thanks for the reply but how do I setup/use an alternative admin
>>>> account?
>>>> I tried the bootdisk from the link and the information given on the
>>>> screen says:
>>>> 'No NT MD4 Hash found. Probably blank password. No lanman hash found
>>>> either. Sorry can't change.' And then tells me to try using a blank
>>>> password which doesn't work.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>> There is a "Users and Passwords" applet in the Control Panel
>>> that you can use to create a new account. I do not remember
>>> the exact details but here is the Command Prompt version:
>>>
>>> - Click Start / Run / cmd {OK}
>>> - Type these commands:
>>> net user Admin2 december /add {Enter}
>>> net localgroup administrators Admin2 /add {Enter}
>>>
>>> If successful then these commands will create an admin
>>> account called "Admin2" with a password of "december".
>>>
>>> Instead of using the Nordahl boot disk, check Google
>>> for similar tools by looking for "reset windows password"
>>> or similar terms.
>>>
>>> By the way, posting the same question separately in two
>>> newsgroups is not a good idea because it causes duplication
>>> of effort and turns off potential respondents. Much better
>>> to use crossposting.
>>>
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>> Ok, thanks for that.
>> So now I have a second admin account called Admin2, but that won't let me
>> into 'Users and passwords' in control panel.
>> I'm not sure if nordhals boot disk has done this but after trying it twice
>> and now sometime later I see that the partitions on the win2k box are all
>> only 5.00mb!!
>> The HD was/is an 80Gb in size and split up into 4 partitions of about 20Gb
>> each, but now only 5mb, eh?
>
> The Nordahl boot disk has no effect on your partitions. Run
> the Disk Manager (Start / Run / diskmgmr.msc) do see your
> true partition sizes.
>
> Run this command from a Command Prompt to see if Admin2
> is an administrator:
>
> net user Admin2 {Enter}
>
> If it is then it would be a member of the "Administrators" group,
> shown at the bottom.
>
>
Admin2 is only a member of *Users account, whereas Administrator is a
member of *Administrators account (which I can't get into).
Thanks