kagedmunky
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I know probably no one here will believe me but everyone here has been extremely helpful before. Here goes: I was tinkering around with my computer yesterday to make it more secure when I'll be damned it became so secure that even I can't access it anymore! I inadvertently disabled my floppy drive (so no spyware could be installed when I was away) and then I stumbled across this little syskey trick where you could have the OS require the insertion of a floppy disk with a key on it before booting. Wrong combination (don't know how yours truly could be so stupid)!
The situation is now I'm locked out of my computer (typing on a computer at the local university computer lab). When I got locked out I panicked because class starts Monday (Yikes) and I need my computer by then. Again stupidly enough (and in a panic) I managed to bypass syskey using a program. Big oops. Apparently if you do that your windows passwords aren't the same. I'm still locked out. I have the startup key disk and a password reset disk in my possession. I feel like if I could re-enable the floppy drive somehow I could actually use my password reset disk and everything will be fine! (or will it?) See the thing is windows password reset wizard is only reading D:\ but I don't even know if I can get the file from A:\ to D:\. I don't know where I would find another computer with an A and a D drive. How can I reenable the floppy drive without logging in to windows?!? Please help!
The situation is now I'm locked out of my computer (typing on a computer at the local university computer lab). When I got locked out I panicked because class starts Monday (Yikes) and I need my computer by then. Again stupidly enough (and in a panic) I managed to bypass syskey using a program. Big oops. Apparently if you do that your windows passwords aren't the same. I'm still locked out. I have the startup key disk and a password reset disk in my possession. I feel like if I could re-enable the floppy drive somehow I could actually use my password reset disk and everything will be fine! (or will it?) See the thing is windows password reset wizard is only reading D:\ but I don't even know if I can get the file from A:\ to D:\. I don't know where I would find another computer with an A and a D drive. How can I reenable the floppy drive without logging in to windows?!? Please help!