Re: Bad XP problem

From: Michael A. Covington (look_at_ai.uga.edu.for.address)
Date: 08/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 01:21:39 -0400

"Eugen T" <viperz@nomorespam.com> wrote in message
news:XOzWc.12059$DG.626772@news20.bellglobal.com...
> Why don't you just stick this drive as a slave drive in another machine
> and
> then just copy the files that you want?

If it's NTFS, and the files aren't readable by administrators, then there's
no way he can re-create the account that owns them. Even if he creates an
account with the same name on the same host, it won't have the same internal
identifier.

OTOH, the files probably *are* readable by administrators, so your advice is
good advice. And administrators can take ownership of files in NTFS even if
they don't own them, and then change permissions.

But I'm fairly sure there are utilities for correcting a lost administrator
password. Google for them.

>
> "JURB6006" <jurb6006@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:20040823215549.20025.00001576@mb-m25.aol.com...
>> This has to do with a lost admin password in XP. The PC won't boot, it
> locks
>> before even running GUI. There are alot of important files in a private
> folder,
>> stuff the guy would pay money to recover. Without the admin PW we can't
> repair
>> the OS with the XP CD, and we were the ones who put it in. It's possible
> that
>> the SAM files are corrupt.
>>
>> I wasn't that confident that anything would work, but I've tried
> installing a
>> fresh boot HD and loading it fresh with XP, cloning the drive and then
> letting
>> XP install over itself, but loading from either it won't give me access
>> to
> the
>> protected files for the owner's account. We know the PW for that account,
> but
>> the admin, when you go into safe mode, well I PW protected that as well.
> (few
>> people know you can do that)
>>
>> I've read that the NTFS doesn't help either, and when I go to access that
>> directory it gives a MB beep. Doesn't sound promising.
>>
>> Could I possible copy the SAM files to the clone, which boots ? Then I
> could
>> maybe use the original login. Another possiblility would be a registry
> merge.
>> Do you think any of this might work, or am I just fucked ?
>>
>>
>> FYI, the PC is : P4 2600HT on an Asus MB with 512MB and 2 80GB Maxtors, a
>> Plextor DVD burner and a region/authentication free DVDROM, authentic ATI
>> Radeon 7500 (64MB) w/TV tuner and vid and SVID outputs. The Asus has
> onboard
>> netcard and Ali sound. Once it's up and running I'm adding a Firewire
> card,
>> which is one of the few things other than RAID which this MB lacks. Even
> so,
>> there's about $1000 tied up in this box, about a year ago. It might be
> worth
>> saving. :)
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>>
>> JURB
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