Ubunted
February 10th, 2007, 03:53 PM
I was doing some maintenance and tweaking on my mother's Windows 2000 Pro machine today, and decided to change the username, because she has since remarried and I wanted to change the last name.
So I went into Control Panel -> User Accounts. It had been set to log in to this account automatically, so I disabled that, changed the username and re-enabled. When I did that, it asked me to enter the password that will be used to log in, and wanted me to type it twice. So I did. It was a password that we have been using for a while, and I did not misspell anything.
Next time I rebooted, I could not log in, using that password or anything else I could think of. I can't even log in as Administrator or any other user account.
So, apart from sucking all her emails and photos off the drive via the Knoppix live CD onto my USB stick (which I'm certain is not large enough) and migrating to Ubuntu (which may or may not work with her photo printer and camera), or reinstalling Windows or using the recovery console (I don't have the Win 2000 CD anymore) are there any good, fairly easy to use, FREE tools out there I can use?
I already have a copy of the UBCD and this program: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html but I'm wondering if there are any alternatives out there.
So I went into Control Panel -> User Accounts. It had been set to log in to this account automatically, so I disabled that, changed the username and re-enabled. When I did that, it asked me to enter the password that will be used to log in, and wanted me to type it twice. So I did. It was a password that we have been using for a while, and I did not misspell anything.
Next time I rebooted, I could not log in, using that password or anything else I could think of. I can't even log in as Administrator or any other user account.
So, apart from sucking all her emails and photos off the drive via the Knoppix live CD onto my USB stick (which I'm certain is not large enough) and migrating to Ubuntu (which may or may not work with her photo printer and camera), or reinstalling Windows or using the recovery console (I don't have the Win 2000 CD anymore) are there any good, fairly easy to use, FREE tools out there I can use?
I already have a copy of the UBCD and this program: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html but I'm wondering if there are any alternatives out there.