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I have windows 2012 r2 VM but I forget the windows administrator password.



When I'm trying to reset the password from recovery command line using below command.




  1. X:\sources
  2. d: cd windows\system32\ren utilman.exe utilman.exe.old
  3. copy windows\system32\cmd.exe utilman.exe.

Usually above command will work for normal physical windows server , ESXi Guest vm's to reset the local administrator password.



** In nutanix recovery command line I am unable to view my actual OS disk.



Is there any way, How can i view my guest VM os disk on recovery mode. ?
Hi team, i am also facing same issue.Please help me guys.
Guessing you need to add the virtio drivers. Mount the iso and use pnputil I think
@ jrack

that also will not work.



I have changed bus type from SCSI to SATA then I tried to reset the password. It's working now.
Guessing you need to add the virtio drivers. Mount the iso and use pnputil I think



Only SCSI virtual disk's are not showing. I have changed the virtual disk bus type to SATA & tried.
Yup SATA drivers are native, but virtio SCSI drivers are not.
Yup SATA drivers are native, but virtio SCSI drivers are not.

I agree.



for time being i have given the solution. do you any idea ? what's the permanent solutions for this ?
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