Guest Bill W Posted September 12, 2007 Posted September 12, 2007 I am trying to make a password reset disk. My PC does not have a floppy drive, so the attempt to generate a disk fails because it is looking for an A-drive floppy. Is there any way to generate a password reset CD? Thank you.
Guest Jim Posted September 12, 2007 Posted September 12, 2007 Re: Password reset disk "Bill W" <xxx@xxx.com> wrote in message news:pLudndzfde8urHXbnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@comcast.com... >I am trying to make a password reset disk. My PC does not have a floppy >drive, so the attempt to generate a disk fails because it is looking for an >A-drive floppy. Is there any way to generate a password reset CD? Thank >you. I solved this problem by buying a USB floppy drive. It would be nice if someone could disclose how to use a CD... Jim
Guest Mike Cawood, HND BIT Posted September 12, 2007 Posted September 12, 2007 Re: Password reset disk "Bill W" <xxx@xxx.com> wrote in message news:pLudndzfde8urHXbnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@comcast.com... >I am trying to make a password reset disk. My PC does not have a floppy >drive, so the attempt to generate a disk fails because it is looking for an >A-drive floppy. Is there any way to generate a password reset CD? Thank >you. Password for Win XP or for the BIOS? Mike.
Guest Bill W Posted September 12, 2007 Posted September 12, 2007 Re: Password reset disk It's for Win XP "Mike Cawood, HND BIT" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message news:5kqs64F51t42U1@mid.individual.net... > "Bill W" <xxx@xxx.com> wrote in message > news:pLudndzfde8urHXbnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@comcast.com... >>I am trying to make a password reset disk. My PC does not have a floppy >>drive, so the attempt to generate a disk fails because it is looking for >>an A-drive floppy. Is there any way to generate a password reset CD? >>Thank you. > Password for Win XP or for the BIOS? > Mike. > >
Guest Patrick Keenan Posted September 12, 2007 Posted September 12, 2007 Re: Password reset disk "Bill W" <xxx@xxx.com> wrote in message news:VaKdnU_QBMuc33XbnZ2dnUVZ_iydnZ2d@comcast.com... > It's for Win XP The option is to get an inexpensive USB floppy drive. The MS utilities that ask for floppies (including ASR ntbackup) can't write this to CD. Otherwise, a number of Linux distributions have XP password reset functions. Keep in mind that using a password reset utility in XP Pro can have disastrous consequences if encryption was invoked. Changing an account password from outside the account will usually instantly break the account's relationship with the encrypted files. You must know beforehand whether there's the possibility of encryption having been used, if the account certificates were backed up (too often the answer to that is no), and if not if the user actually cares about losing the data. HTH -pk > > "Mike Cawood, HND BIT" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message > news:5kqs64F51t42U1@mid.individual.net... > > "Bill W" <xxx@xxx.com> wrote in message > > news:pLudndzfde8urHXbnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@comcast.com... > >>I am trying to make a password reset disk. My PC does not have a floppy > >>drive, so the attempt to generate a disk fails because it is looking for > >>an A-drive floppy. Is there any way to generate a password reset CD? > >>Thank you. > > Password for Win XP or for the BIOS? > > Mike. > > > > >
Guest Nepatsfan Posted September 12, 2007 Posted September 12, 2007 Re: Password reset disk In news:pLudndzfde8urHXbnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@comcast.com, Bill W <xxx@xxx.com> wrote: > I am trying to make a password reset disk. My PC does not > have a floppy > drive, so the attempt to generate a disk fails because it is > looking for an > A-drive floppy. Is there any way to generate a password > reset CD? Thank > you. If you have a USB flash drive, you can use that instead of a floppy drive. Good luck Nepatsfan
Guest Jim Posted September 12, 2007 Posted September 12, 2007 Re: Password reset disk "Nepatsfan" <nepatsfan@SBXXXIX.com> wrote in message news:u90Cx$Y9HHA.5456@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > In news:pLudndzfde8urHXbnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@comcast.com, > Bill W <xxx@xxx.com> wrote: >> I am trying to make a password reset disk. My PC does not have a floppy >> drive, so the attempt to generate a disk fails because it is looking for >> an >> A-drive floppy. Is there any way to generate a password reset CD? Thank >> you. > > If you have a USB flash drive, you can use that instead of a floppy drive. > > Good luck > > Nepatsfan > That is good to know since flash drives are cheaper than floppies. Jim
Guest Xenomorph Posted September 13, 2007 Posted September 13, 2007 Re: Password reset disk The best password "disk" I've used it actually a disc. http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html This is the current version: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/cd070409.zip Just burn to a CD and go. I've used it on systems that didn't have a floppy drive for some reason. The CD version also contains extras built-in like support for SCSI and SATA hard drives. It's a quick and easy way of blanking out a password. "Bill W" <xxx@xxx.com> wrote in message news:pLudndzfde8urHXbnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@comcast.com... >I am trying to make a password reset disk. My PC does not have a floppy >drive, so the attempt to generate a disk fails because it is looking for an >A-drive floppy. Is there any way to generate a password reset CD? Thank >you.
Guest Bill W Posted September 13, 2007 Posted September 13, 2007 Re: Password reset disk Thank you all for your help. You've given me the answer I need and a solution for my problem. Thanks again. Bill
Guest sara Posted September 13, 2007 Posted September 13, 2007 Re: Password reset disk I'm having the same problem! But I have a Windows Vista Home Premium system. When i put in a USB it says "this is not a recovery disc". What do i do? I just bought a computer and it already has a user name with an unknown password. Heeeelp!! "Bill W" wrote: > Thank you all for your help. You've given me the answer I need and a > solution for my problem. Thanks again. > > Bill > >
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