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Batuta · #1 Post by **Batuta** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 4:57 pm

Marc_G · #2 Post by **Marc_G** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 5:18 pm

Default administrator password is blank. Just hit return, entering nothing. Good luck. Let us know if it works out.

Batuta · #3 Post by **Batuta** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:20 pm

Marc_G · #4 Post by **Marc_G** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 7:08 pm

It's a windows standard that the Administrator default password is blank. Every computer I've ever used came with a blank-password Administrator account.

Bob Collins · #5 Post by **Bob Collins** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 11:25 pm

Marc_G is on it. A default install of Windows has no administrator password until you place one in the GUI portion of the install. If you never did this, a blank password should work.

How did you squeeze the disk layout? If you squeezed things prior to a full boot, the image that the install boots from, may be wacked, but this is a SWAG.

Batuta · #6 Post by **Batuta** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 9:55 am

monkeybagel · #7 Post by **monkeybagel** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 12:22 pm

If you lose the Administrator password and need to access the recovery console, you can boot to a Windows 2000 CD and choose recovery console, and it doesn't prompt for a password. This also works the other way arounds - Windows XP will get you into the recovery console on a Windows 2000 machine with no password...

Tricky One - Windows Partition shot

Tricky One - Windows Partition shot

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