Duplicating drupal site without login info I'm a new Drupal user. 

Someone gave me a backup of their Drupal and .mysql content.  I more or less followed these instructions: http://www.ostraining.com/blog/drupal/drupal-migrate/, except the site already had it's own settings.php, and so the site is now up and running.  

The problem that I'm having now is that I can't log into the site to make any edits because I don't have a login.  I tried to create an active user in phpmyadmin with an md5 hash password, and changed the user to an administrator.  However I'm still not successfully logging in, the site says I'm still giving it the incorrect login info.  When I try to recover/reset my password by email I am not receiving any emails.  I am using Windows XP.

Is there any way I will be able to login to edit the site?
One way of solving your issue would be to update super admin (first user) password pragmatically, by creating a temporary php file under Drupal root folder and add the following code to it then access it from a browser.

&lt;?php 

define('DRUPAL_ROOT', getcwd());
require_once DRUPAL_ROOT . '/includes/bootstrap.inc';
drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);


// load super admin user
$account = user_load(1);

// save user password
user_save($account, array('pass' =&gt; 'admin'));

echo "Super admin password has been changed";


Make sure to replace admin with desired password