I use a really helpful utility called "chtpw". It's actually a mini mandrake kernel on a floppy or cd. It was originally built as a utility to reset windows admin passwords (which is also the original reason I downloaded it).
However, you can use it also to boot into single user mode. It has a lot of IDE drivers on it so it's useful for desktops and machines with bootdisks on IDE. There are also scsi drives available for it but i've never used it Once you boot up the floppy it searches for all the drives it finds and can support. Then a menu comes up asking if you want to mount a partitition. If you are on a windows machine it will continue to have menus giuding you to look in the default places the admin password is stored . If you are on a linux machine, just quit out of the utility and it puts you at a bash prompt where you can do things like mount drives and use vi Do a google on "chtpw" to find it. I think it's called the "offline NT password utility" or something like that. Ben Yau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
