25 Dec 2007 at 12:25 #1 postmanfw postmanfw Soldato Joined 7 May 2006 Posts 3,191 Location Fort William Got a mate that just got a laptop for xmas and her mum put a password on it....and forgot it!!! Didnt make a password reset disk either. Is there any free software that can recovery it? cheers and merry xmas
Got a mate that just got a laptop for xmas and her mum put a password on it....and forgot it!!! Didnt make a password reset disk either. Is there any free software that can recovery it? cheers and merry xmas
25 Dec 2007 at 12:37 #2 ns400r ns400r Soldato Joined 23 Apr 2004 Posts 3,579 Location UK, Near the middle...... http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/
25 Dec 2007 at 13:00 #3 bledd bledd Don Joined 21 Oct 2002 Posts 46,935 Location Parts Unknown ophcrack will tell you what it is its about 400mb though, download the live iso image and use imgburn to burn it
ophcrack will tell you what it is its about 400mb though, download the live iso image and use imgburn to burn it
25 Dec 2007 at 14:22 #4 farooqm farooqm Associate Joined 5 Dec 2005 Posts 251 Location West Midlands Active Password Changer - certainly helped me when I was in dire shtuck.
26 Dec 2007 at 00:22 #5 postmanfw postmanfw Soldato OP Joined 7 May 2006 Posts 3,191 Location Fort William cheers for the tips but unfortunately got no where with any of them Need the nthash files for ophcrack and its a bity out of my price range nothing important on it so just going to do a clean install cheers for all the help
cheers for the tips but unfortunately got no where with any of them Need the nthash files for ophcrack and its a bity out of my price range nothing important on it so just going to do a clean install cheers for all the help
26 Dec 2007 at 00:25 #6 Deleted member 64478 Deleted member 64478 ns400r said: http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/ Click to expand... I am really suprised you didn't get anywhere with this linux disk. You sure you ran it correctly? This piece of software works a gem.
ns400r said: http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/ Click to expand... I am really suprised you didn't get anywhere with this linux disk. You sure you ran it correctly? This piece of software works a gem.
26 Dec 2007 at 01:21 #7 postmanfw postmanfw Soldato OP Joined 7 May 2006 Posts 3,191 Location Fort William yep so was i That one wouldnt mount the volume that vista was on for some reason even after a clean shut down as per instructions. Handy tool and knowledge aquired though for future problems
yep so was i That one wouldnt mount the volume that vista was on for some reason even after a clean shut down as per instructions. Handy tool and knowledge aquired though for future problems