Thanks again thus far;

HTH suggested being administrator on the new OS and forcing my my into the
files. I have done this and copied everything worth having to another drive.
I've done this completely from a clone, so the original OS is still untouched.

The most important thing was to sake the guy's files, that being done, now I'd
like to repair the original OS because the dude violated my prime directive of
"DO NOT LOSE THOSE DISKS" and further reading has awoken me to the possibility
of losing accounts. Even if the private files are lost on this drive, we still
got big driver issues, burning and ripping software etc.

Someone mentioned a set of Linux floppies that can reset the admin password.
Whatever the repair process does, it can't be worse than what I got. EZCD 6 is
not likely to install from a HD, and there are countless other things.

Does anyone know where to get these disks ? I've Googled but ran into a few
garden paths. Does anyone have a direct link already that will actually work ?
If so I'd appreciate it if they dropped it in here.

Thanks again and don't worry, I won't probably be back with this type of
problem, I intend to explore every avenue available to protect PCs that I
build. This one is going to be repleat with user accounts, one for each member
of the family. When I get through, the security is going to be tighter than a
gnat's ass stretched over a 55 gallon drum.

A quick link to get those disks would be greatly appreciated. Actually, now
that I think of it, I should try to get it on P2P, but of course can I trust it
?

JURB