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Two common ways to recover admin password in Windows Server 2008\/2012\/2016\/2019 for Dell PowerEdge Servers, Dell Precision Workstations, desktop or laptop.<\/p>\n
Usually, most of the people don’t have the installation USB flash drive or VD\/DVD ROM at hand at all. As a result, we can use a recovery tool to\u00a0recover Windows Server 2008 domain admin password on Dell computer. Besides, it is easier for beginners.<\/p>\n
iSunshare Windows Password Genius Advanced<\/strong> is one of the most effective software which can solve the problem by resetting the password. And for its application in the password recovery, you can refer to the following instructions.<\/p>\n In this case, we will introduce the following steps on the basis of selecting the USB device.<\/p>\n 1. Download iSunshare Windows Password Genius Advanced<\/a> in another computer and install it.<\/p>\n 2. Choose USB as the device<\/strong> media type.<\/p>\n 3. Insert a bootable USB device and hit Begin burning<\/strong>.<\/p>\n 4. Click Yes<\/strong> as the following screen shows up.<\/p>\n Note:<\/strong> Backup all important files before you format the drive.<\/p>\n 5. Hit OK<\/strong> as the screen indicating “Burning Successfully<\/strong>” appears.<\/p>\n For the old Phoenix BIOS, please refer to the detailed procedures as follows:<\/p>\n Note: How to set computer boot from USB drive<\/a><\/p>\n 1. Insert the reset disk into the Dell computer and power on it.<\/p>\n 2. Repeatedly hold and release\u00a0F2<\/strong> or F12\u00a0<\/strong>while the logo showing on the screen. Select BIOS Setup<\/strong> to open the BIOS settings directly.<\/p>\n 3. Once the Dell BIOS opens, you can see a screen like the image below.\u00a0On the left sidebar, expand the General<\/strong> section and select the Boot Sequence<\/strong>.<\/p>\n 4. Go to the right side, click the checkbox of “USB Storage Device” under the Boot Sequence. Then you can see its lists in the right block. Select the USB Storage Device and click on the up arrow key to move it to the top of the list.<\/p>\n 4. Click on Exit<\/strong> to boot Dell from the USB flash drive.<\/p>\n For further information, you can see\u00a0How to Enable Boot from DVD Option with UEFI Boot Mode Enabled<\/a>.<\/p>\n 1. After successfully booting Dell computer from a USB device, you can see a screen pops up as follows. Select a Windows system and the domain user, then click Reset Password<\/strong>.<\/p>\n 2. Click Reboot<\/strong> after setting a new password to the domain administrator. Then hit Yes<\/strong> to eject the recovery disk and restart the computer.<\/p>\n Just following the above procedures one by one, you can enter the Dell computer of Windows Server 2008 with the new domain admin password. Why don\u2019t you have a try if you are interested in it?<\/p>\n To recover the Windows Server domain admin password on Dell computer after lost, you need to prepare an installation disk for it.<\/p>\n Step 1:<\/strong> Connect the installation disk to the target Dell computer and set it as the first boot option. Of course, you can refer to Step 2 in Part 1 as well.<\/p>\n Step 2:<\/strong> When the installation window appears, click on Next<\/strong> > Repair Windows<\/strong> > Troubleshoot<\/strong> > Advanced Options<\/strong> > Command Prompt<\/strong>. Then the cmd.exe window will show you.<\/p>\n Step 3:<\/strong> Execute the commands in the image below and don’t forget to hit the Enter<\/strong> key at the end of each line. Generally, the drive D is the system disk.<\/p>\n Then the Dell computer will restart.<\/p>\n Step 4:<\/strong> In the login window, click on the Ease to access<\/strong> logo on the lower-left corner to open the Utilman.exe window. Now you need to run the net command to reset the forgotten Windows Server 2012 domain admin password.<\/p>\n At last, log in your Dell computer with the new password [Admin123]. Remember to rename utilman.exe to cmd.exe, and rename utilman.bak to utilman.exe in the Command Prompt which can be entered after inserting the installation disk<\/strong>(follow step 2 in “Recover Admin Password on Dell Server with Command Line” above).<\/p>\n But sometimes, you may fail to rename the system files. So it is necessary to utilize the installation again with the lines below.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two common ways to recover admin password in Windows Server 2008\/2012\/2016\/2019 for Dell PowerEdge Servers, Dell Precision Workstations,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-windows-server"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7628"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126675,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628\/revisions\/126675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Step 1: Create a password reset disk by the USB flash drive or CD\/DVD ROM.<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nStep 2: Boot the Dell computer from the reset disk.<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nStep 3:<\/strong> Recover the password to the domain administrator.<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nRecover Admin Password on Dell Server with Command Line<\/h2>\n
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