[AccessD] OT W2K Help!!!!!!

Andy,

just some suggestions:

- did you try loggin in as administrator?

Are you using any security policies? Is C formatted as NTFS? (i think so
when your dos boot disk doesn't see C:) We had soemthing of the same and the
users couldn't log in because they were not granted access to 'personal
settings' and thus could not log in..... And administrator could

- Is any of the data in the windows system folders? (Windows, Winnt, my
documents. My ...)?

Because if it isn't you might consider the reinstall.... i had a problem
reinstalling once, couldn't even startup the PC anymore. Someone asked me
the same and said if i reinstalled there might be the possiblilty windows
will instal over the same folders as it did before and the data might be
accessed after reinstalling. Since that was my only option (recovering the
data was far too expensive for a home pc) i tried it and all my data was
accessable...! No guarantee this will work for you aswell... ;-)

HTH

Bert-Jan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Lacey" <andy at minstersystems.co.uk>
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 10:03 PM
Subject: [AccessD] OT W2K Help!!!!!!


> Would have posted to the new tech list but not sure how many are on that
> yet and this is a bit desperate.
>
> Have just finished upgrading my son's PC from W98SE to W2K so that he
> can attach the iPod I just bought him. Fairly easy until it booted in
> W2K for the first time. It asked me for a single password to use for the
> existing account and for the new administrator account it has created. I
> used my son's name and it took it fine, except that now I can't log on
> at all. It kinda knows 'tom' (for so it is) is correct because when I
> enter that it takes it but just comes straight back to ask for it again,
> whereas anything else I type gets rejected as invalid. But a lot of
> b****y good that is when I can't get in. Reboot after reboot, still no
> joy. Caps on, caps off. What on earth can I do? I've scanned the web but
> software to crack W2K passwords has a price around $2-300!!!! Help!!!!
>
> Andy Lacey
> http://www.minstersystems.co.uk
>
>
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