--- On Tue, 7/29/08, TNWestTex <mcforum(a)bellsouth.net> wrote:
From: TNWestTex <mcforum(a)bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: OT: What is fusebulk filesystem? ntpass fails to reset windows password :(
To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
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