I had the same trouble. Everything I tried failed. If you boot from your X cd and try to reset the password, you'll find there are NO administrators there. You are locked out - permanently- except as a user. Bummer, eh? On Saturday, March 22, 2003, at 08:01 PM, Dan Farley wrote: > used CCCloner to make a clone of my current 10GB hard > drive to an external firewire drive (partitioned for 10GB). When I > make it > my startup drive, unlike my current setup - it wants me to login. When > I do > - it doesn't seem to recognize my password. Any idea what's going on. I > don't want to proceed until I'm confident I can clone back what I > remove. Ron "Stand up for America...Boycott France."