--- On Tue, 7/29/08, TNWestTex <mcforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: TNWestTex <mcforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: OT: What is fusebulk filesystem? ntpass fails to reset windows password :( > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 10:54 AM > 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? > -- Thank you for your concerns and also to another user that explained the fuse filesystem. The computer has been reformatted and the software reinstalled. It somehow is protected* (when you try to blank or change the password, it locks you out), this is the kind of sh*t that we do not like. But we popped in a restore cd that came with the laptop and started it from scratch. If we mess around with any livecd with password changer/reseters, the computer will not boot even with the correct password that was issued. This is weird and is the second computer of many that I was not able to blank the password so as to gain back control. Also happened in another case a Dell machine running XP and the teacher let a student use the computer to do a research paper, the student changed the password and locked everyone out of it. I tried to use the SystemRescueCD, trinity Rescue CD, and I could not finish the job. Several modules could not be loaded and the machine would return a kernel panic. Another friend of mine had a Windows LiveCD built with BartPE and he got in and changed the password back :) This allowed the teacher to get back the control of the computer. Thank you all for your help! Regards, Antonio -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
