Here (http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetrade/tp/passrecovery.htm) are listed some nice password recovery/reset programs :)

If you're using XP Home it might be probable that there's an administrator account without a password (called 'Administrator')
Normally the password of this account is blank and you can access it by...

Yeah, that's right but Microsoft doesn't offer support for these customized editions (but I don't know if you need it) ...

Agreed, but you don't know this so I would just refer him to some kind of imaging solution ...

That's indeed an illegal operation :) ...

I think Microsoft backup is able to do that, but it will be a more pleasant experience if you just use Acronis TrueImage (http://www.acronis.com/) which is designed for that purpose ...

FILENAME.BAT

@ECHO OFF
fsutil.exe fsinfo statistics c:


Save this under filename.bat and it will run the requested command :) ...

Edit:: Replace filename with an appropriate filename ...

What's your computer vendor?
Did Windows came pre-installed with your pc, in that case it came probably also with a recovery cd or a recovery partition (somewhere on your harddisk) ...

Consider...