So a customer blew away their whole system inc DC's except 1 box they now need some info off. The software needs to be reinstalled to allow this plus the Domain reinstated so it can be authenticated.

So I turned the box into a 2k DC and rebooted. I was tired and totally forgot about the password side of things. Of course no one knows what the local admin password was which has now obviously become the DC Admin password.

I've tried this to reset it:

Offline NT pw & reg-editor, bootdisk

which worked but has obviously only changed the local admin password and for some reason I'm not given a drop down to allow me to log on to the local machine, only the domain so it still fails.

Is there anyway to reset a domain admin password? Can't blow away the box as there are DB's on it which now aren't backed up as it was due to be blown away.....

Ta

 

err not the best answer but any other accounts on the DC which had domain admin rights? could be reset with those, also

Forgot the Administrator's Password? - Change Domain Admin Password in Windows 2000 AD

that any good

 

Mike - that might just work!!! Its worth a bash - cheers

 

I have a disk that will recover the passwords on Windows pc if you need it...

 

All sorted with Mikes link Cheers tho