Good morning. You have a few options you can try: 1. Research with Google for tools to help you reset the password.  2. Do a parallel installation to recover your data and then reinstall the OS on clean drives.  3. The recommended method would be to boot the server with an OMSA LIVE!  bootable CD, which can be downloaded from here: linux.dell.com/.../OMSA64-CentOS55-x86_64-LiveCD.iso Once its created, you can boot the server with the CD, mount an external drive and recover your data. Once its recovered, then you can reload the server and restore your data.  Regards,
i am using a power edge 2900 server, and i forgot my administrative password is it possible for me to load a fresh copy of windows server 2003 without formating the hard drive? 
POWER EDGE 2900 ADMINISTRATIVE PASSWORD PROBLEM