Antonio Olivares wrote: > > Dear all, > A Lenovo Laptop running Windows Vista locked out the teacher who was > issued the computer at school. The teacher forgot the password. I have > successfully used the SystemRescue CD http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page > with the utitlity ntpass many times. This time, it failed. I also tried > the cd from http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ which is the same. > The laptop locked the teacher out and he could not login. I told them it > was a snap and boy was I wrong. The cd locates the users and apparently > all looks good and when we reboot we try with a blank password and we > cannot log on. Trying other livecd's also gets us nowhere. There > apparently is some garbage on the C:\Windows\system\system32 directory > that prevents the ntpasswd from doing its job. When viewing the > filesystem which should be NTFS, the programs accessing the drive report > that the fs is fusebulk. I have not heard about fusebulk filesystem. > There has to be some sort of encryption on the drive to prevent the > password blank from working. > Does anyone have any other tools that can reset the password in such a > case? > Is the only solution to reformat and reinstall? > > NTFS from VISTA has changes that have not been caught up to by the non M$ utilities. The school doesn't have a system administrator that has the master password? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/OT%3A-What-is-fusebulk-filesystem--ntpass-fails-to-reset-windows-password-%3A%28-tp17524370p18717911.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
