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From: Smiles on 16 Mar 2010 20:06
good day

my son changed his login password and made an error remembering it

this is a used xp box with an administrator password which we do not have

now we can not log in

if I put the drive in my machine is there a way of correcting this problem


thanks
From: Peter Foldes on 16 Mar 2010 22:46
http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/

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"Smiles" <smile_inspector(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> good day
>
> my son changed his login password and made an error remembering it
>
> this is a used xp box with an administrator password which we do not have
>
> now we can not log in
>
> if I put the drive in my machine is there a way of correcting this problem
>
>
> thanks

From: Smiles on 17 Mar 2010 22:03
it fails at step 2 finding sam file

thanks Peter

Peter Foldes wrote:
> http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/
>
From: John John - MVP on 17 Mar 2010 23:17
Restore the SAM file from a backup, you can find a backup in one of the
Restore Points "Snapshot" folders inside the System Volume Information
folder. Look for _REGISTRY_MACHINE_SAM , rename it SAM and place it in
the \WINDOWS\system32\config folder. The path to the Snapshot folder
will be something like this:

C:\System Volume
Information\_restore{D86480E3-73EF-47BC-A0EB-A81BE6EE3ED8}\RP1\Snapshot

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309531
How to gain access to the System Volume Information folder

John

Smiles wrote:
> it fails at step 2 finding sam file
>
> thanks Peter
>
> Peter Foldes wrote:
>> http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/
>>
From: Smiles on 18 Mar 2010 08:42
0k but how would you do this if you can not login to machine

John John - MVP wrote:
> Restore the SAM file from a backup, you can find a backup in one of the
> Restore Points "Snapshot" folders inside the System Volume Information
> folder. Look for _REGISTRY_MACHINE_SAM , rename it SAM and place it in
> the \WINDOWS\system32\config folder. The path to the Snapshot folder
> will be something like this:
>
> C:\System Volume
> Information\_restore{D86480E3-73EF-47BC-A0EB-A81BE6EE3ED8}\RP1\Snapshot
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309531
> How to gain access to the System Volume Information folder
>
> John
>
> Smiles wrote:
>> it fails at step 2 finding sam file
>>
>> thanks Peter
>>
>> Peter Foldes wrote:
>>> http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/
>>>
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