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Originally Posted by zakkeast
It makes me feel complicated,i'd rather take Fergler's advice ---Use the startup tools to reset my password.
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When the recovery tools work easily, that's great!
When they don't...
The method I outlined is how you get back.
Moving forward, having a spare system or 3 lying around on spare external drives is the thing to do. It's such a show stopper to have your whole computer system shut down to you simply because you don't have a spare system lying around to plug in and boot into when (not if) something goes wrong.
Consider this:
If you only have one bootable system (!!!) and something get corrupt, now you have no choice but to figure out what happened and how to fix it. Could be ugly!
If you have a backup system on a spare hard drive that you keep up to date (ie. clone from your primary often enough), you can boot into it and simply overwrite from the backup drive to the primary drive. And here's the important part - without having to figure out how to actually fix something complicated!