Hello, Good Evening
One of my colleagues, he told me Recently:
He had a mishap with a cloned drive (the original) getting exposed to the domain. The end result was a barked domain profile on the user PC.
He decided to leave the domain and rename PC, at the same time. The end result is that he now has a desktop where the local admin account is the only account on the PC. The problem he now has is that the password does not work on this account.
To make this problem all the more interesting, it appears that this current build does not allow you to boot to a command prompt or other safe-mode state so that he can even run a system restore to it. It’s a Dell PC. F8 no longer works. Holding the shift key down on restart brings up several options…all of which require a password to the remaining user Id…which it doesn’t recognize.
He tried recovery mode (power on to spinning dots, kill power. Do it again. Third time you power on, it enters recovery mode) But, recovery mode also requires a password.
While he likely just going to nuke this one from orbit. he curious if there’s anyone out there who is aware of a way to ‘get into Windows’ without a working password or Admin account. he heard of how you can enable the Administrator account. But, that’s something that requires command prompt/registry access. He keeps thinking of more and more reasons why this going to cause trouble. He can’t even restore to a saved system state because of the same issue.
