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.

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 !

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.

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).

"YS1" wrote in message
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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.

"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.