Error in setting up Network ID

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I have a dire emergency here. I was logged onto my W2K
laptop as Administrator (the laptop is not on any domain
and the only accounts are Adminstrator and my girlfriends
account whcih is only a user account) and then went into
the Properties for MY COMPUTER. I then ran the Network ID
wizard on the Network Identification tab. I then went
through the wizard, reading the windows but not changing
anything in any of the wizard windows, and when I reached
the last wizard window - I hit Cancel. The system still
wanted me to restart, which I did. Then when I tried to
log on, the system immediately stated that the user name
and domain are incorrect. But there is not a domain cell
in the login window, even if I hit the options tab.
Therefore, I can't select local computer. In short, I
cannot log into the system using the administrator
account. I took the laptop to a local company and they are
telling me that they cannot copy any of the administrator
files from the drive to another drive by installing this
drive into one of the desktop configurations as a non-
bootable drive. When they go to copy those files, they get
an error message. Is that even possible? If this drive is
placed into another machine as a non-bootable drive, won't
all of the files and folders (which have only default
permissions) be available for copying if I'm logged onto
the new machine as administrator? By the way, there
reasoning is that I have to pay more for them to do
a "file recovery" as opposed to just making this drive a
slave drive (don't boot from it) and copying all of the
user files over. Is this a scam or is this something that
makes sense? Please advise ASAP!
 
Frank said:
I have a dire emergency here. I was logged onto my W2K
laptop as Administrator (the laptop is not on any domain
and the only accounts are Adminstrator and my girlfriends
account whcih is only a user account) and then went into
the Properties for MY COMPUTER. I then ran the Network ID
wizard on the Network Identification tab. I then went
through the wizard, reading the windows but not changing
anything in any of the wizard windows, and when I reached
the last wizard window - I hit Cancel. The system still
wanted me to restart, which I did. Then when I tried to
log on, the system immediately stated that the user name
and domain are incorrect. But there is not a domain cell
in the login window, even if I hit the options tab.
Therefore, I can't select local computer. In short, I
cannot log into the system using the administrator
account. I took the laptop to a local company and they are
telling me that they cannot copy any of the administrator
files from the drive to another drive by installing this
drive into one of the desktop configurations as a non-
bootable drive. When they go to copy those files, they get
an error message. Is that even possible? If this drive is
placed into another machine as a non-bootable drive, won't
all of the files and folders (which have only default
permissions) be available for copying if I'm logged onto
the new machine as administrator? By the way, there
reasoning is that I have to pay more for them to do
a "file recovery" as opposed to just making this drive a
slave drive (don't boot from it) and copying all of the
user files over. Is this a scam or is this something that
makes sense? Please advise ASAP!
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After reading your long post I'm not sure which of the
following is your question:

a) How to log into a system that rejects your admin password;
b) How to retrieve files you believe are lost (are they?)
c) If your service company is leading you on

Please clarify, and try to keep it short.

If this was my system then I would do things in this order:
1. Reset the password. There are tools to do this.
2. If Win2000 does not start, check if the data is still
there. Again there are tools to do this.
The rest depends on the outcome from Steps 1 & 2.
 
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