Recovery Console password reset on RAID machine?

I was trying to repair a corrupt windows\system32\config\system file using the recovery console - that did not work. Now, when I use the recovery console I am asked for an administrator password, which of course I do not know.

A further complication is that the machine is configured with RAID (striped disks using Intel Matrix), so booting from any kind of recovery disk requires further drivers to be loaded.

The ERD password reset tool I am using (not sure of the name but it is Linux based, and free) seems to allow support for RAID, but I can not get it to work (NTFS signature missing). I have tried 'fetching' the drivers from a floppy, but that does not seem to help.

So where can I go from here? Are there any other password recovery tools that definitely support Intel Matrix Raid?

 

Managed to fix it with the following steps:

1. Installed a 3rd IDE hard disk,
2. Installed XP (slipstreamed with RAID drivers) on the new drive and booted from it,
3. Installed RAID driver,
4. Copied backupsof the registry files from the system restore area