I need some advice on how to handle this issue. I work for a non profit children's center and a dot bomb that went out of business donated a Win NT workstation to us. It's a Toshiba P400 Desktop. They did not know the password for the logon. It looks like this is something that is pretty tough to bypass for someone like me who is an accidental techie. Can one of you suggest how you would handle this? Should I just load Win98 onto it? Our server is NT but all the workstations are 98 so I guess a standardized desktop would be the way to go. This Toshiba is newer than anything I've worked on and all the com ports, network connection, sound port etc is all built in to the motherboard. (No cards for anything) What are the chances that the drivers for all this are on WIN 98 full version? Would it be prudent for me to swap out the hard drive and test it on another hard drive in case there's a problem or would I be wasting my time? Is there anyone out there with some Toshiba background that could help with that part of this puzzle? Sorry if this sounds remedial, I'm not too experienced. We usually get old 486's for donation so this is something quite different and I don;t want to screw it up and render it useless! Thanks for any advice I can get on this. I'm open to everyones suggestions...

Check this link and see if it makes sense to you: http://www.computing.net/windowsnt/wwwboard/forum/11983.html

Just put the hard disk in other machine with NT (if the disk is using NTFS) and delete the file \WINNT\system32\config\Sam. It will destroy the administrator's password and all users. Pablo.

Hey Ken Dr. Zhivago, you're a good researcher. Maureen: Make a quick install with your NT server disk besides the winnt directory. Just to get access to the NTFS file system. Then exchange the winlogon.scr as described in message 11983 mike blum

Oh yeah? I'd characterize myself as pretty stupid. Until you signed "Mike" I thought Blue Minnie was a woman!