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Removed domain restarted and now get admin pass help!

Aug 10, 2014 11:50AM PDT

Hello,

I deleted the domain on my uni. laptop so I could connect to a corporate wifi as it wasn't letting me do that. I was asked to restart and I did.

Then I got an administrative password required to login to my laptop!

Now i can't login and am doing the phd project overseas is there a way to solve this quickly?

if not do you think if I take the HDD out I will be able to copy the data at least ?

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Aug 10, 2014 11:41PM PDT

No. You didn't create a local user account before you dropped off the domain, so now you're stuck is the long and short of it. You'd need to be added back to the domain, which would require that you be connected to the domain controller and have the credentials for an account with sufficient access to add you back to the domain. I am honestly not sure whether or not this can be done over the Internet, but I'd lean towards no.

If you can find/make a Linux LiveCD distribution you could easily get at the files, unless they're encrypted, in which case you're completely screwed.

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Aug 11, 2014 12:08AM PDT

I am in contact with the administrator to possibly give me the password for admin account.

I tried the linux live CD but at startup of linux I get asked for username and password.

would it work if I remove the HDD from laptop and connect it another PC just to get the files?

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Aug 11, 2014 2:27AM PDT
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THANKS EVERYONE!
Aug 12, 2014 10:06PM PDT

Hey guys,

Problem solved by removing the HDD and connecting it by USB to another PC to be able to backup the data.

A disaster avoided Happy


Amer

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Try F8 to get to the Advanced Boot Menu
Aug 10, 2014 12:26PM PDT

If you can get to the Advanced Boot Menu via F8, you could try the last good bootup option (I forget the exact name). Of course if you have a full system backup to an external hard drive (like you should), you could just restore from that. You could also make a repair disc on another Windows 7 computer, boot from it, and try to do a System Restore to a date prior to this becoming a problem. With a repair disc you can also boot to Command Prompt and use XCOPY to save any data you don't want to lose. You can type XCOPY /? from the command prompt to get the syntax if need be.

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Thanks but
Aug 10, 2014 2:58PM PDT

Thanks for the quick reply, will try restore to last known best settings from BIOS. as for the xcopy will that work even if system is password protected ?

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Aug 10, 2014 3:19PM PDT

to add to this a side question how would restoring to last good config from boot bring back domain settings?