Lost Admin Password

uch

Have a XP pc with the admin Password and Username lost, any ideas how to recover them ?? Reinstalling not an option.

EOA_Mushy

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054877995

r3nu4l

Hmmm! You could be genuine but my experience of forums says that for every genuine "help me bypass my password" message there is another less than genuine "help me bypass the password on this ultra-cheap laptop I bought from the man in the dark alley, late at night"

Not saying you are not genuine but it's so hard to tell... Try www.hackthissite forums and see what info/help you get.

uch

Fried the drive when somebody spilled tea on the open system,so that solved that problem, so I now have to send it to data recovery people, anybody recommend anyone good.

Thanks

mukki

data recovery costs a fortune, files on your home pc are hardly that important


try these tricks instead

fit the drive in a mates pc (turn it off then unplug its dvd-rom cables and plug them into your drive ) boot up his windows (xp or 2000), copy over what ever it is your so desperate to get off it


or if your hard drive is truely screwed

buy an identical drive (make and model) of ebay, you can just swap the boards, its usualy held on by 3 screws then try pluging into your mates pc again


you documents will be in d:\documents and settings\"your login"\my documents
your old desktop will be in d:\documents and settings\"your login"\desktop
all your apps and stuff will be on the original cds they came on

uch

Nah the board on the disk is fried

mukki

mukki wrote:

buy an identical drive (make and model) of ebay, you can just swap the boards, its usualy held on by 3 screws then try pluging into your mates pc again


you documents will be in d:\documents and settings\"your login"\my documents
your old desktop will be in d:\documents and settings\"your login"\desktop
all your apps and stuff will be on the original cds they came on

you can swap the board

what sort of stuff is saved anyway

uch

DNA Sequences are stored on it so they are pretty important. I recon I'll get a reputable company to do this, thanks for the help

r3nu4l

Just wondering...do you absolutely need to recover the sequence data from the hard drive?

If you had your sequencing done by a company such as MWG or Lark then you should contact them for the results once again, they usually keep records for quite a while. Also any sequencing I've had done is usually sent to me by email so you may have them still in your inbox.

On the other hand, if you sequenced them yourself then you will still have the constructs in a vector in some -80C freezer, and can get them sequenced again, costs money but c'est la vie

EDIT - Just had a thought, maybe they are not raw data sequences, perhaps they are multiple sequence alignments, in which case, ouch!

Best of luck

MunsterCycling

And you had no back-up routine in place???

Thats just asking for trouble, and who lets anybody near an open system with a teacup in their hand???

Come on now and start backing up your data and stop the crying over spilt milk.