Guest Collin Peter Mhuriro Posted September 8, 2008 Posted September 8, 2008 good day, we have a windows 2003 server that is not booting. i have tried to repair the installation folder to no avail, i have a solution for my problem but it can only be resolved in the recovery console. my problem is that i dont have the administrator's password (though my account has administrative rights), i wanted to find out how i can log in to the recovery console without the administrators password. Regards, Collin -- Regards, Collin
Guest Dusko Savatovic Posted September 8, 2008 Posted September 8, 2008 Re: failing to login the recovery console Without a password, you won't be able to do much. You might have set up your computer in advance according to this article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312149/en-us but I guess it is too late now. What is your solution? You might be able to apply your solution using WinPE 2. In fact this is now my favorite tool. To fix boot environment, I now do it regularly using 'bootsect' command. Bootsect command replaces 'fixboot' and 'fixmbr' from recovery console. "Collin Peter Mhuriro" <CollinPeterMhuriro@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E8D705DE-D210-43A2-AD35-EF4B03A7F4A8@microsoft.com... > good day, > > > > we have a windows 2003 server that is not booting. i have tried to repair > the installation folder to no avail, i have a solution for my problem but > it > can only be resolved in the recovery console. > > > > my problem is that i dont have the administrator's password (though my > account has administrative rights), i wanted to find out how i can log in > to > the recovery console without the administrators password. > > > > Regards, > > Collin > > > -- > Regards, > Collin
Guest Dave Patrick Posted September 8, 2008 Posted September 8, 2008 Re: failing to login the recovery console Try resetting it first. http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/ -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "Collin Peter Mhuriro" wrote: > good day, > > > > we have a windows 2003 server that is not booting. i have tried to repair > the installation folder to no avail, i have a solution for my problem but > it > can only be resolved in the recovery console. > > > > my problem is that i dont have the administrator's password (though my > account has administrative rights), i wanted to find out how i can log in > to > the recovery console without the administrators password. > > > > Regards, > > Collin > > > -- > Regards, > Collin
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