From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 2 02:40:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E48BD37B401 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 02:40:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns0.uk.circle.com (ns0.uk.circle.com [212.161.1.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D58D343FB1 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 02:40:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince.hoffman@uk.circle.com) Received: from itlonkazlauskas ([213.249.210.2]) by ns0.uk.circle.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with SMTP id h529jjmc044186; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 10:45:47 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <02a401c328ea$f20bbe20$8801090a@uk.circle.com> From: "Vince Hoffman" To: "lukek" , "FreeBSD" , "Jud" References: <007501c3271d$26c5fbf0$080aa8c0@yujo> <001c01c327d2$70ad0af0$300aa8c0@yujo> <002701c327d7$2241dee0$300aa8c0@yujo> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 10:40:00 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4922.1500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4925.2800 Subject: Re: Doh ! Installed FBSD5.0 and no more dual boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 09:40:10 -0000 >> I >> cannot use the recovery option because I cannot for the life of me >> remember >> the admin passwd. > > Doh! indeed. Then if setting the Win2K partition active doesn't work, I'm > out of better options than your suggestion to do a fresh install and mount > the old Win2K partition from there. But I'm no guru. Anyone else have a > suggestion? > just as a FYI. I've used the disk here http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ with great success on various occasions to recover forgotten NT/Windows2k administrator passwords. Vince