Monday, January 3, 2011
Recover Windows Administrator password
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Please Dont missuse This ARTICLE. Its meant for "Educational Purpose" only or for helping those who have lost their PASSWORD.
This
should be used only when you forgot or lost your password and
not for hacking into somebody else’s system.Using this hack you
can reset your administrator password or leave it blank.
Few
days ago my friend came to me and told me that he can't login into
his windows administrator account. He was typing the correct password
but windows was not taking it. He was denied access to his
administrator account although he entered the correct password. This
kind of situation is really irritating.
Most
of us might have experienced a situation when we forget our Windows
administrator password.And we are not able to login into windows and
access our all necessary data and programs.At that time the only
solution that comes into or mind is the installation of fresh copy of
windows but this will lead to loss of all data and files that are in
the windows drive.
There
is also another way around using which you don’t need to install a
fresh copy of windows and without losing any data.We are providing
here the method to reset windows administrator password.This tutorial
is only for the purpose of recovering your windows 7,xp or vista
password.
Ubuntu
has become, far and away, the most popular distribution of Linux in
the world. Its ease of installation and use makes it the ‘go to’
operating system for an open source alternative. In this case you
don’t even have to install the OS. You simply use the Live CD that
is included with the burned ISO of Ubuntu.
Now
i will guide you through stepwise process to recover your windows
password:1. Go to Ubuntu and download the latest ISO of the operating system.
2.
Use one of the free
ISO burning applications to
create a bootable Ubuntu CD.
3.Use
the Live Ubuntu CD to boot into the live version of the OS.
4.Go to System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager.
5. Then Settings>Repositories
6.Once the ‘Software Sources’ window appears, make sure you select ‘Software restricted by copyright or legal issues’, then click close.
7. Click reload on synaptic package manager.
8. Click Search, and type in ‘chntpw'.
9.Once the ‘chntpw’ app is found, right-click on it and ‘mark for installation’.
10.
Click “Apply on Summary Window” and also to confirm changes.
**Remember
an internet connection is required for the above steps. If there is
no availability for a connection, a USB flash drive will be
required.**
Next,
we must mount the Windows drive. In Ubuntu, go to Places>
Select the appropriate drive.
This
is the important step. You must locate your correct windows drive.
After mounting you can go to /media and see which is your
windows drive. Normally the drive with windows starts with number
like 01342...
The final step of the process is actually resetting the password via the Linux terminal.
14. In Ubuntu go to Applications>Accessories>Terminal.
15. Type ‘cd /media/disk[drive where windows is installed]/WINDOWS/system32/config/’ in the terminal window.16. Type ‘sudo chntpw SAM’17. This by default will change the Administrator password. If you would prefer to change a particular user. Type ‘sudo chntpw -u username SAM’.18. Afterwards, you’ll see a long display of information, most of which can be ignored.
19. The next step is to actually reset the windows password. It is recommended to make the password blank with an asterisk * .20. You’ll then have to confirm the change with a Y, and reboot.Hurray Your Windows password is successfully Changed..!!!
Hope you liked this post. I will come up with more interesting posts in future.Thanx for reading.
MOHIT BASKOTA
This post was written by: MOHIT BASKOTA
Mohit baskota is a computer Engineering student at NIT,Jaipur.A tech enthusiast and a FOSS advocate with interest in photography.Follow him on Twitter
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2 Responses to “Recover Windows Administrator password”
January 3, 2011 at 12:05 PM
amazing!!! your blog should reach more and more people...! (soumya mukherjee):)
January 3, 2011 at 2:26 PM
Thank you soumya. please refer to your friend too!! :)
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