Windows 2000 login password recovery

djsmiley22 · 11 Jul 2006 at 11:02

Hi all

I am trying to re-set a password on the above operating system but cannot find a free tool on the internet that i could use. Everything i have found only offers a demo version of software that cannot actually be used to do this.

It is for a laptop, a un-authorised user of the computer set-up an account and cannot remember the login details she specified.

Cheers

$c8t@ · 11 Jul 2006 at 11:05

use this

http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/

make a bootable cd....

boot to it, follow the prompts, REMEMBER to QUIT & SAVE...

hope this helps

$c8t@

The_KiD · 11 Jul 2006 at 11:13

Slightly off topic, but what are OCUK rules on Password recovery/cracking tools? and the use of them?

$c8t@ · 11 Jul 2006 at 11:18

The_KiD said:
Slightly off topic, but what are OCUK rules on Password recovery/cracking tools? and the use of them?

funny you should mention that, i thought that after i posted!

it doesnt mention anything in the FAQ only about "warez" and software copy protection

i suppose it is a "vague" area but im sure the link i gave could be used for legitimate reason,

sorry if it is against the rules!

djsmiley22 · 11 Jul 2006 at 11:35

Thanks for the link

but it did not work

, have tried a few versions of boot disks from that website and each time it comes up with "boot failure" when trying to boot from the disk.

I do appologise if this is against forum rules, someone has just asked me to get onto their laptop.

$c8t@ · 11 Jul 2006 at 11:42

have you set the laptop to boot from cd first?

how are you burning the disk, you need to burn as image file, you cannot just put the file on the disk as "data"

have you got another "bootable" cd to make sure the cd-rom drive works ok?

$c8t@

djsmiley22 · 11 Jul 2006 at 11:44

yeah doing it the correct way, doing it via floppy as i don't think we have any spare cd's here at work, it boots into the program but wont load a file that it initially tries.