One of my Windows Vista PCs has thrown up an odd error. I'm not able to login to the only admin account as the password is not accepted and an error is thrown up saying that it can't connect to the service server. I've no idea about the hows or wherewhats of this but a long Google search isn't giving me any help. Of course there are a few unbacked up files in there that I need to save...
Briefly I'm looking to do one of two things -
1. Create a new admin account in order to take ownership of the old admin account and the files within it. Is this possible to do given that the two other accounts on the PC are user accounts?
2. If the above fails (or isn't possible) I was looking into using a live Linux setup to access the Windows disk and retrieve the files that way. I'm sure I read somewhere that this is possible but can anyone confirm before I go ahead and potentially waste my time?
TIA