Powerquest Bootmagic problems 1

[wotsit]

Hey.

Does anyone know if there is a way around the password prompt in bootmagic ?
We have a user's old machine that we need to get into, but he has installed bootmagic 7 and set a password.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[wolluf]

Is it a dual boot machine then? If so, which o/s is installed on the active partition on drive 1? And do you need access just to retrieve information or to use the machine? (because I think boot magic writes to the mbr - though not sure, have only a brief acquaintance - in which case running fdisk /mbr from win98 boot floppy or fixmbr from 2k's recovery console should revert it to booting from first active partition. Or you could create a 2k boot floppy, by copying ntldr & ntdetect.com from 2k install CD (\i386) or another installation to newly formatted floppy, along with a boot.ini file you can create in notepad:-

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

will boot 2k on 1st partition of 1st drive (just change/add entries with different partition numbers and/or rdisk (if > drive):- eg

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

boots 2k from 2nd partition on second disk.

hth

 

[wotsit]

Thanks, I'll try that.

It's not a dual boot machine, or at least it shouldn't be and it has windows 2000 on. We need to use an application and data on the machine so just copying files from the disk won't work.

Thanks