You can the steps mentioned in the link below to reset the SA password: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/raulga/archive/2007/07/12/disaster-recovery-what-to-do-when-the-sa-account-password-is-lost-in-sql-server-2005.aspx > 1. Open the Configuration Manager tool from the "SQL Server 2005| Configuration" menu > 2. Stop the SQL Server Instance you need to recover > 3. Navigate to the “Advanced” tab, and in the Properties text box add “;–m” to the end of the list in the “Startup parameters” option > 4. Click the “OK” button and restart the SQL Server Instance > 5. After the SQL Server Instance starts in single-user mode, the Windows Administrator account is able to connect to SQL Server using > the sqlcmd utility using Windows authentication. You can use > Transact-SQL commands such as "sp_addsrvrolemember" to add an existing > login (or a newly created one) to the sysadmin server role. > The following example adds the account "Buck" in the "CONTOSO" domain to the SQL Server "sysadmin" role: > >`EXEC sp_addsrvrolemember 'CONTOSO\Buck', 'sysadmin';` > > Once the sysadmin access has been recovered, remove the “;-m” from the startup parameters using the Configuration Manager and restart the SQL Server Instance > > **NOTE:** make sure there is no space between “;” and “-m”, the registry parameter parser is sensitive to such typos. You should see an entry in the SQL Server ERRORLOG file that says “SQL Server started in single-user mode.”