[sclug] Mounting NTFS from Linux boot CD.

Matt matt at bodgit-n-scarper.com
Wed Jan 14 10:49:12 UTC 2004


* steven lane <steve at noxowls.com> [2004-01-14 10:19:19]:
> Hi,
> 
> Can anybody help me with a small problem please? I am trying to get
> into a Windows 2k machine where the OS will not boot and the
> administrator password is not known so the Microsoft Recovery Console
> is useless.  One approach I figure may be to boot Linux from a CD,
> mount the NTFS partition (overcoming NTFS and Windows security) and
> make the necessary changes to get it to boot. 
> 
> Does anybody know if there is a distro that boots a minimal linux from
> the CD and allows me to mount the NTFS partition?

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

That any good?

Matt
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