If you boot from a DOS diskette, can you see files on the C: drive
partition?  (i.e., Is it FAT16 rather than NTFS?)
  If so, you can copy off the .sam file to another machine and run
the password-cracking utility from L0pht against it.  Odds are good
that this will uncover the local administrator password, which should
be sufficient.

  If this doesn't work, there are probably still ways to crack it,
but it may be simpler in the long run to reformat the drive and
install your own operating system.

Dave Gillett


On 2 Nov 2001, at 13:51, Tammy L Healy wrote:

> Our school was donated some computers that were previously on a network.  We
> are trying to get them onto our network, but I do not know the password for
> the previous one, so I cannot get into the system to add this computer to
> our domain.  Does anyone know how I can get in to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Tammy

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