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Computer help?

by chris chorley
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Hi. Found an old computer in the loft turned it on and it work but can't remember the password how can I get in?
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  • Profile picture of the author imgeek2727
    When you start up your PC.
    Continuously tap F5 & F8.
    This will open up an option menu.
    From this select Safe Mode.
    After you enter your system through safe mode,
    just delete the password by going to control panel>user accounts.
    This will do the job next time you turn the pc on.
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    • Profile picture of the author chris chorley
      Hi, it's still asking for the password in safe mode
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      • Profile picture of the author imgeek2727
        Hmm...that's odd. This should have worked. Anybody else able to help out?
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        • Profile picture of the author Kingfish85
          Originally Posted by imgeek2727 View Post

          Hmm...that's odd. This should have worked. Anybody else able to help out?
          No, it wouldn't have. Safe mode has nothing to do with getting around a password. Safe mode is for troubleshooting purposes, only running certain processes & services needed.


          Booting into linux will be the easiest & fastest way to access the SAM database.

          this was the first decent link I found on google for you to download an iso. Alternatively, you could also use Backtrack which has a ton of other useful tools that I wont get into.

          http://blog.daossoft.com/reset-windo...hntpw-cd-disk/
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    Actually, it could have worked,but its possible there was a manufacturers password on the system and not a user password. In XP at least if there are user passwords but no admin passwords you can log in as the admin then go to the users and delete the password and restart and it would let you in. I haven't done it in ages but if presented with a machine with that situation it would come back to me.
    Of course I don't know why he said to press F5,F8 is all you need to tap.
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  • Profile picture of the author imgeek2727
    I meant to say F5 or F8. Wasn't sure which one. But thanks. I learned something today.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    • Pull the hard drive
    • Set the pulled hard drive to slave
    • Daisy chain the old hard drive to a working PC
    • Browse the old hard drive contents

    Also, there used to be an old Linux bootable CD that you could burn, that would let you browse the hard drive without login. I can't remember what it was called, it's been so long since I used it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kingfish85
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      • Pull the hard drive
      • Set the pulled hard drive to slave
      • Daisy chain the old hard drive to a working PC
      • Browse the old hard drive contents

      Also, there used to be an old Linux bootable CD that you could burn, that would let you browse the hard drive without login. I can't remember what it was called, it's been so long since I used it.

      This will work too. Although, you may not be able to access some things since Windows will continue to see the permissions. Any linux distro will be able to view the drive contents.
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    Open CD The Ultimate Boot CD are 2 I can think of.
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