How to reset the administrator password in Windows Server 2016?

Question

Windows Server

Hello! A situation has arisen when it is necessary to access the account of a computer that was purchased with hands. The IT specialist is not in touch with the seller, I can’t get access from him, but there is no crime if anything. There is no secret information on the computer, just a clean working configured system that I need. Can someone tell me how to reset the password? The option to replace Utilman with cmd did not work, this utility does not exist. The registry option didn't work either. Through Diskpart, the disks are not visible at all, except for the installation flash card, however, you can go to disk X, there is a windows folder there. How to be? 2 disks in raid via B140 controller. Thank you all in advance.

Answer 1

If there is "nothing like that" on the server, then just reinstall the OS again, and set your password. Any LiveCD or WinPE will not help with server Windows.

Answer 2

Boot disk with MS DaRT 10, possibly with the integration of drivers for the raid array into the image.

Answer 3

We take a disk from a liveCD where there is any program for resetting the password
We write it to a CD / USB flash drive
We boot from it and reset the password
This is, for example, in the assemblies dude smokieblablash ...
look on the rutracker, there are a lot of such liveCDs