i have a windows 2000 professional nt and for no reason it just locked me out, i dont know or even remember if i had anything to do with it myself, but my password and username wont work on it. is there a way i can "hack" through this and sign in to my computer? (im on my buddies computer)- thanks for all help/advice
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Computer problem
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Did you have any other accounts setup on it? At least with XP .. the default Administrator account doesn't have a password. Maybe you can get in that way.
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yea im pretty stumped, ive tried searching for it and reading all those articles and ill either be EXTREMELY confused, or itll tell me to buy some cd thing. so yea is there anyway someone can give me just a step by step deal thing...im obviously not a computer person =P-thanks again for all help/advice
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If you have another computer, you can take the hard drive(locked one) out and install it as a slave drive into the other computer. There you can copy any files you need to save. Afterwards you can return teh drive back to the original computer and do a reinstall.
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I'd prefer this:http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/Free is better and there's a quite simple guide for the whole procedure...
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woa...so when i take out the hard drive from the locked one, how do i put it in the one that works (especially if its a diff. windows)??
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i know how to do that on a mac, but for windows, just take like a super magnet and sweep ur computer, then it should erase everything on it and u can start fresh......i advise that you save that as a last resort lol
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Connect it to the same IDE cable as the hard drive in the other cable. Make sure the drive that works is set to "Master" using the jumpers and your locked one on "Slave". When you start the computer the "locked" one should come up as a D: or E: (or other) drive depending on you rcomputer configuration.There are other variants depending on your computer, but this is a simple standard setup.
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uhhh....yea i think im just going to try that magnet thing lol
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Get someone who knows computers to help you.
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No man dont use a magnet!!!!!
Pleas im me if you want to know how to open comp up and make it work. -
Magnet = BadFirst of all, hard drives save to optical disk and a magnet should not affect the information stored on the disk, rather it my mess up other parts like the small system board or unalign your header. In which case, you're basically just breaking it... A floppy drive saves information to a disk by magnetization and you can corrupt data by sweeping with a magnet.If you're going to reload your machine, you might as well reformat and reload the operating system.
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ah websex good to see you get a post in...
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That is incorrect. A hard drive saves data magnetically, like a floppy, but with much higher density. A hard disk is not an optical drive (as CD and DVD reader/writers are). A magnet won't mess up any "small system boards" of a hard drive, but it will certainly screw up the formatting, if you can get a powerful-enough magnet in there. (Anyway, I think the "lol" indicated that he took the magnet idea as a joke).[Sorry, just couldn't let this one go, in case somoeone finds this thread through searching.]
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atleast by bringing back this thread you did so with something worth while to add rather then "lol me too"
and you apologized