Administrator password lockout

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I'm running Win 2000 Professional on a home pc and can't log in as I don't
know the password for the Administrator username. I've tried the various
solutions recommended here but unfortunately my floppy drive isn't
functioning to use a boot recovery disk. I've tried creating a copy on to a
USB drive via another pc but it's not picked up when I reboot the machine.
Everything I've tried leads me back to the log in screen for Administrator.

Any suggestions gratefully received!

Thanks
 
PC said:
I'm running Win 2000 Professional on a home pc and can't log in as I don't
know the password for the Administrator username. I've tried the various
solutions recommended here but unfortunately my floppy drive isn't
functioning to use a boot recovery disk. I've tried creating a copy on to a
USB drive via another pc but it's not picked up when I reboot the machine.
Everything I've tried leads me back to the log in screen for Administrator.

Any suggestions gratefully received!

Thanks
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Floppy drives are cheap if you are up to the task of swapping out
the old drive yourself. $12 Canadian - less than $10 YankeeBucks.

As well, explore your BIOS options. You might not be able to
boot from a USB floppy drive simply because you haven't enabled
that in the BIOS.
 
PC amateur said:
I'm running Win 2000 Professional on a home pc and can't log in as I don't
know the password for the Administrator username. I've tried the various
solutions recommended here but unfortunately my floppy drive isn't
functioning to use a boot recovery disk. I've tried creating a copy on to a
USB drive via another pc but it's not picked up when I reboot the machine.
Everything I've tried leads me back to the log in screen for Administrator.

Any suggestions gratefully received!

Thanks
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Do you have a CD drive?

If so have you tried this bootable Knopix password reset CD

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Jocko
 
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