OT: What is fusebulk filesystem? ntpass fails to reset windows password :(

[TNWestTex]

Antonio Olivares wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> A Lenovo Laptop running Windows Vista locked out the teacher who was
> issued the computer at school.  The teacher forgot the password.  I have
> successfully used the SystemRescue CD http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
>  with the utitlity ntpass many times.  This time, it failed.  I also tried
> the cd from http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ which is the same. 
> The laptop locked the teacher out and he could not login.  I told them it
> was a snap and boy was I wrong.  The cd locates the users and apparently
> all looks good and when we reboot we try with a blank password and we
> cannot log on.  Trying other livecd's also gets us nowhere.  There
> apparently is some garbage on the C:\Windows\system\system32 directory
> that prevents the ntpasswd from doing its job.  When viewing the
> filesystem which should be NTFS, the programs accessing the drive report
> that the fs is fusebulk.  I have not heard about fusebulk filesystem. 
> There has to be some sort of encryption on the drive to prevent the
> password blank from working.  
> Does anyone have any other tools that can reset the password in such a
> case?
> Is the only solution to reformat and reinstall?
> 
> 
NTFS from VISTA has changes that have not been caught up to by the non M$
utilities.  The school doesn't have a system administrator that has the
master password?
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