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How to suppress a password recovery disk
"I have created a Password Recovery Disk". Yep, that means you
created the .psw file, or you tried to create one, on whatever you selected as the storage media on which to save that file. The Password Recovery Disk wizard creates a .psw file that is about 1.5KB in size. I have never seen such a file after executing the "Create a Password Recovery Disk". It seems that the wizard did not create such a file. If the file is not there, Password Recovery Disk did not work. It seems that the wizard worked correctly nonetheless, since my USB disk can actually be used to reset my password (while other disks with which I have not executed the wizard cannot). Of course, you could re-initialize your USB thumb drive using whatever utility its maker provides for that device. Have you copied any other files to your USB thumb drive to know if it is still usable. I have read and written hundreds of files since I executed the wizard (this was more than 6 months ago), and it works very well. They do go bad with repeated use or abuse and why they should never be used for permanent storage (or your only copy which means you should have a backup on other media). I use my key as a transfer media (between my laptop and the school's computers, since connecting to their network is forbidden). That is why I have copied so many files to it. |
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How to suppress a password recovery disk
After trying to run the wizard again, I found the solution which it states
when you run the wizard. Namely, just create a new password recovery floppy disk and the previous one (on your USB flash drive) will be invalidated. Then you can discard the new recovery floppy disk or do whatever you wish with it. Then reinitialize your USB flash drive and see if it can be reused. I have started and completed the wizard again, and I have seen no such message. Maybe it was forgotten during the translation process?? My laptop does not have a floppy drive, so I could only create another USB stick recovery disk, which would move the problem from one disk to another. I have downloaded a disk editor and used it to set every byte of my USB disk to 00 (directly accessing to the physical drive, so I erased the boot sector as well). I have not reformatted my disk after that, so it contains really no data at all. But the Password Recovery Wizard still accepts it as a valid reinitialisation disk ! I have also downloaded VolumeId by MS TechNet/SysInternals to change the volume ID of my USB disk, and the Wizard still accepts it after this ! |
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How to suppress a password recovery disk
Sounds like you have some odd configuration of this particular USB thumb
drive, like maybe a hidden partition. That's why I mentioned using the maker's initialize utility rather than trying to just format it. |
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How to suppress a password recovery disk
Vanguard a écrit :
Sounds like you have some odd configuration of this particular USB thumb drive, like maybe a hidden partition. That's why I mentioned using the maker's initialize utility rather than trying to just format it. Thanks for the idea, but Intuix does not provide any utility for my USB key. On the other hand, I have accessed the physical drive using a disk editor and set each byte to 0x00, thus destroying any partition (I think). |
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How to suppress a password recovery disk
"YS1" wrote in message ... After trying to run the wizard again, I found the solution which it states when you run the wizard. Namely, just create a new password recovery floppy disk and the previous one (on your USB flash drive) will be invalidated. Then you can discard the new recovery floppy disk or do whatever you wish with it. Then reinitialize your USB flash drive and see if it can be reused. I have started and completed the wizard again, and I have seen no such message. Maybe it was forgotten during the translation process?? My laptop does not have a floppy drive, so I could only create another USB stick recovery disk, which would move the problem from one disk to another. I have downloaded a disk editor and used it to set every byte of my USB disk to 00 (directly accessing to the physical drive, so I erased the boot sector as well). I have not reformatted my disk after that, so it contains really no data at all. But the Password Recovery Wizard still accepts it as a valid reinitialisation disk ! I have also downloaded VolumeId by MS TechNet/SysInternals to change the volume ID of my USB disk, and the Wizard still accepts it after this ! Can you buy, beg or borrow an external USB floppy disk drive and install it on your laptop? The wizard on my system does not mention using USB flash drives for the recovery media. Microsoft still designs software that uses floppy disk drives almost as if it assumes that every computer has one available. I am slightly curious as to how you managed to do this in the first place when the wizard instructs you to insert a floppy disk in the machine. I am attaching a screenshot from the wizard. |
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How to suppress a password recovery disk
"Allan" wrote in message ... "YS1" wrote in message ... After trying to run the wizard again, I found the solution which it states when you run the wizard. Namely, just create a new password recovery floppy disk and the previous one (on your USB flash drive) will be invalidated. Then you can discard the new recovery floppy disk or do whatever you wish with it. Then reinitialize your USB flash drive and see if it can be reused. I have started and completed the wizard again, and I have seen no such message. Maybe it was forgotten during the translation process?? My laptop does not have a floppy drive, so I could only create another USB stick recovery disk, which would move the problem from one disk to another. I have downloaded a disk editor and used it to set every byte of my USB disk to 00 (directly accessing to the physical drive, so I erased the boot sector as well). I have not reformatted my disk after that, so it contains really no data at all. But the Password Recovery Wizard still accepts it as a valid reinitialisation disk ! I have also downloaded VolumeId by MS TechNet/SysInternals to change the volume ID of my USB disk, and the Wizard still accepts it after this ! Can you buy, beg or borrow an external USB floppy disk drive and install it on your laptop? The wizard on my system does not mention using USB flash drives for the recovery media. Microsoft still designs software that uses floppy disk drives almost as if it assumes that every computer has one available. I am slightly curious as to how you managed to do this in the first place when the wizard instructs you to insert a floppy disk in the machine. I am attaching a screenshot from the wizard. Here is another screenshot that is more explicit concerning the result of rerunning the wizard. By the way, my version of Windows XP is for an HP Pavilion desktop. |
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