There is a small (bootable CD/ISO) linux distro called Austrumi that you can use for this purpose http://sourceforge.net/projects/austrumi type this at the boot prompt boot: nt_pass and you'll be in a console utility that you can use to recover/reset the administrative password I've heard that EBCD also does well for this purpose http://ebcd.pcministry.com/ -- David Siedband http://generation-xml.com On Dec 30, 2004, at 1:42 PM, Ron Dorman wrote: > I am trying to revive an old Win2 server. Still boots fine but I can > not remember the admin password. Does anyone know how to reset or > bypass to get logged on to this server? > > TIA, > Ron D. > --