Lost windows xp administrator and all user passwords

[fzbRogue]

I have managed to loose my passwords. My personal user account and the administrator account. I have seen instructions statiung that if I deelete the "sam" file @ %systemroot%\system32\config\sam. It would reset the pass is this true?

thanks

 

[AKA]

Try this


Works great for WinNT, Win2K & some XP locally.

 

[McMadman]

I have to ask - How did you lose your passwords?
Did you simply forget them, or did something happen?

I have to deal with this problem and the evidence right now is leaning towards a corrupted sam file (the administrator and user accounts should have had no passwords, yet they fail to work)

 

[Mvmajorem]

You can try Linnt software that can reset passwords on NT based machine.

 

[Links4me]

You don't want to delete the sam file.....just follow the instructions and use the password blanking thing....that works the best....

 

[Links4me]

oops....sorry..... http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

 

[McMadman]

I found the problem I had with xp home, the sam file should have been around 20k, instead if was 256k
using a copy of ntfsdospro I was able to copy in the backup registry and solve my problems.

 

[Links4me]

Cool.....