Help. I am pulling my hair out in frustration here. First a little
background to the problem:

I am running Windows Server 2003 at home and have user accounts set up for
all the people in the house. I use the Admin account and the rest of the
users aren't given Admin priveleges. Also my Dell Dimension PC does not have
a floppy drive so solutions using a bootable floppy are out of the equation.

Now the actual problem:

The Admin account has been locked for getting the password wrong 3 times and
there is no timer set to reset the counter. I have my whole life on the PC
under that account and so re-installing and losing all that data is not
something I want to do. Also there is less than 2GB free space on the hard
drive so installing a parallel OS and recovering files isn't possible
either. I can't delete files and create more space because the files are
owned by the Admin account and none of the normal users have the access
required to take ownership.

I also went to www.loginrecovery.com and used the ISO image there but it is
meant to be a bootable image, but my Windows loads automatically. When I go
through the Boot menu and force the system to boot from CD it asks me to
insert a bootable CD then press F1.

I have tried using the recovery console but that needs an Admin password
too.

Any ideas please?

On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 22:39:10 GMT, JP wrote:

So what happened when you inserted the cd created fom the ISO image and
pressed F1?
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Steve
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On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 22:39:10 GMT, JP came up with this fine idea in
24hoursupport.helpdesk:

You might want to try the option described here
http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_admini...password.htm#1 There is also a
CD image available
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Jakob

"Steve" <steve@steve.invalid> wrote in message
news:1ilgue5q7nikg$.1wg8k3jnhunpt.dlg@40tude.net.. .
It says to insert a bootable CD then press F1. The CD is supposed to be
bootable. If I put my orginal installation disk in, which is bootable, and
press F1 it works fine.

"jda" <wh@tever.not> wrote in message
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............However Nero requires Admin privileges to burn a CD. I went to a
friends house to burn the CD image that I tried before and that doesn't
work. I will try again tomorrow evening when he gets back from work but I
suspect I will get the same problem as before.

On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 23:49:40 GMT, JP came up with this fine idea in
24hoursupport.helpdesk:


If you do not have Nero Burnrights
http://www.nero.com/nero6/eng/Nero_BurnRights.html it does. But you cannot
install that without admin rights so does not help you much

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Jakob
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set
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network.http.proxy.pipelining to true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 30

"JP" <test@test.com> wrote in message
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3 times?? What sort of stupid OS locks out admin users after just 3 wrong
password attempts?

On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 00:03:07 GMT, Zitty came up with this fine idea in
24hoursupport.helpdesk:

wk3 does if it's set up that way
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Jakob

JP <test@test.com>, boiled in <oawFf.2494$37.78@newsfe3-win.ntli.net>:

To each their own.

Why did you go to a friends house to burn the cd image that you tried
before and that does not work?

Why would anyone want to try tomorrow evening when he gets back from
work but you suspect you will get the same problem as before again, JP?

JP <test@test.com>, boiled in <oawFf.2494$37.78@newsfe3-win.ntli.net>:

To each their own.

Why did you go to a friends house to burn the cd image that you tried
before and that does not work?

Why would anyone want to try tomorrow evening when he gets back from
work but you suspect you will get the same problem as before again, JP?

On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 23:47:10 GMT, JP wrote:

OK, when you burnt the cd did you burn it as an image or just burn the file
you downloaded to disk?
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Steve
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"Steve" <steve@steve.invalid> wrote in message
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I opened Nero 6 Enterprise Edition. Selected the 'CD_ROM (ISO)' option and
added the ISO file to the CD then burnt it. As far as I know that is how to
burn an image on to a CD.

"jda" <wh@tever.not> wrote in message
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I can't install anything wothout Admin rights. Talk about Catch-22.

"Fred Tehbot" <fred.tehbot@tender-pooter.org.au> wrote in message
news:98242714.CAD84DF6.A9B3B660.E87BE640@weakened-crimson-darth-vader.com...
Yep, whatever that means.

Did you even read the question that I was replying to? My Nero doesn't let
me burn without Admin rights. So in order to get the ISO image that I
mentioned earlier onto a CD I went to my friends house. When I got back and
tried it it didn't work.

Because no-one in here can give me a solution to the problem (so far) so I
must resort to futile attempts on the off-chance that a miracle occurs and I
can access my system and recover the 30 Gigs of stuff I have collected over
the years and need to keep.

"Zitty" <moc.dlrowltn@esuba> wrote in message
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Windows is that stupid OS. Does that really surprise you?

"jda" <wh@tever.not> wrote in message
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....and it is. I contemplated 5 as the limit but even that wouldn't have
helped me in this situaution.

JP wrote:
2003 server at home, then the fact that you have "forgotten" the Admin
password does NOT reflect very well on your supposed competence.

"Gordon" <gordon@localhost.localdomain> wrote in message
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I did not forget the Admin password. The Admin password has been locked out
for getting it wrong 3 times. This was not by me but another user (my mum in
fact). She is not very technical and tried logging in with her password but
forgot to change the Username from Admin to her name. She kept trying to log
in and locked the Admin account. i still know what the password is so if
there is a way to just unlock the Admin account then I could still log in. I
don't necessarily need to reset the Admin passowrd.

On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:14:00 GMT, JP wrote:

OK. I downloaded the "cd.iso" from the loginrecovery site and burned it to
cd using Nero 5.5.10.9 (bundled version)

File > burn image > browse to select image > burn

If you simply burned the iso to cd you only have a copy of the iso on cd.

The CD booted just fine on Windows2k and WindowsXP-Pro boxes. Suggest you
download the cd.zip file again, unzip it to cd.iso and try again

On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:14:55 GMT, JP wrote:

Some links mentioned before in 24HSHD
http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_admini...r_password.htm
http://www.sysinternals.com , maybe it's the commercial tools section
which is http://www.winternals.com/ the emergency tools pack, with a
password unlock app.
http://www.winternals.com/Products/A...d/Default.aspx

and some maybe not, mentioned..
http://www.jms1.net/nt-unlock.shtml



For the future :-)

Always create a backup admin account.

Install the OS twice, to different partitions, allows booting to 2nd OS
for data recovery.



To get data back for now.

Disconnect current drive.
Put another disk in, primary master to boot from.
Install OS.
Move current disk to slave, put it back in.
Watch out for shifting drive letters.
Take ownership of files on original disk, copy files.



Me