Administrator account is especially set to allow the administrator to change systems, install programs and access to all files on the computer. Besides administrator accounts, there are user accounts, but administrator accounts have total administration privileges over other user accounts. So if forgetting your administrator password, it can be a trouble.
In this article, we will walk you through how to reset Windows Server 2008 administrator password (including local or domain administrator password) with Asunsoft Windows Password Reset Advanced with small CD/DVD or USB. Asunsoft Windows Password Reset Advanced is powerful that it can easily reset all versions of windows user accounts' password with CD, DVD and/or USB Flash Drive, such as Windows 8/7/Vista/XP local administrator password and Windows server 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012 local and domain administrator/user password.
Step 1: Download and install Windows Password Reset Advanced on anther computer you can login as administrator.
How to get "Windows Password Reset Advanced"?
You can download the full version after purchasing Windows Password Reset Advanced, and then install it on Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP, 2012, 2008, 2003, 2000.
After you click Buy Now button on our website, it will navigate you to another order platform, Regnow, which is one of the most popular e-commerce platform of world. You will receive a e-mail with download link in it when you successfully process the purchasing. The procedure is easy and secure.
Step 2: Run the software to create a Windows server password recovery disk with CD/DVD or USB.
Note: You have to do this on another computer.
Insert your USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk to the computer and start the software, when its main interface shows, you first choose USB Device or CD/DVD as the media type and then select your drive name from the pull-down list, click “Begin burning”, when the burning is over, you successfully created a password reset disk.
Step 3: Plug in the newly created recovery disk to your locked Windows Server 2012 computer, boot the computer from CD/DVD or USB.
Start your locked Windows Server 2008 computer and press BIOS entry key as soon as possible to get into the BIOS SETUP table, change the devices boot order, After you saving the change, your computer will restart automatically and boot from your recovery disk.
1. Insert your CD/DVD Windows Password Recovery Disk. Start/Restart your computer and press F2/DELETE(BIOS Entry KEY) immediately and repeatedly until the SETUP table pops up.

2. BIOS(COMS) setup main menu appears, now you can use up/down key to choose BIOS FETURES SETUP. Hit Enter key to enter BIOS FEATURES SETUP table.

3. Press ↑/↓key to highlight Boot Sequence and hit Enter, choose A, CDROM, C for the Boot Sequence device. Then press F10 to save your setting and reboot your computer. Your computer will boot from your Windows password recovery disk.

More examples: How to Boot from CD/DVD-ROM
Plug in your Windows password recovery disk you have created with USB Flash Drive and set your computer to boot from USB. If your BIOS version is AMI, follow the procedures. It is easy and important.
1. Press F2/Delete (BIOS Entry Key) as soon as you can while your PC reboots until the BIOS SETUP screen appears.
2. Looking for a tab relating to booting in the BIOS SETUP screen, it is called "Boot" in this example. You can use ←/→ key to select and open it. You'll see a submenu that's specific to the PC Drive boots sequence. Use ↓/↑key to highlight "Hard Disk Drives", hit "Enter".

3. Use ↓/↑key to select "1st Drive", hit "Enter" key.

4. Go on enter Boot Settings, then the Boot Device Priority item.

5. Enter Hard Disk Drives.

5. Select "USB: your USB brand", and press "Enter" key to set the USB Flash drive as the first bootable option.

6. Then you can see USB Flash Drive is the first boot device.

7. When you done the operations, press "F10" to save and exit. Select "OK" and press "Enter" key, then the computer will reboot and boot from USB Flash Drive(your Windows password recovery disk).

More examples: How to Boot from USB
Step 4: Reset Windows Server 2008 administrator password by a few clicks.
After booting from your Windows password recovery disk, Windows Password Reset Advanced will start automatically and display a friendly interface.
Now you can reset any user account password of your computer.
1. Select Windows Server 2008 from list. All Windows system on your computer will be listed.
2. Select Administrator from the user list. All user accounts of your Windows will be listed.
3. Click Reset Password button and click Yes when a confirm dialog pops up to reset user's password, then you can reset other users' password as well. For Windows Server 2008, the password will be reset as Asunsoft@2012 by default.
4. After resetting password successfully, click Reboot. When a confirm dialog pops up, eject Windows server password recovery disk, and click Yes to restart your computer then you can feel free to login Windows server 2008 administrator with new password.

Tips: "Windows Password Reset Advanced" allows you to create new administrator account to Windows server 2008 without logging. You can click Add User button to add a new user(Administrator) then you can login your locked computer with this new account. Refer to Create a new user section for more information.
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