Computer Question

[Liebgott]

So at work, this one guy has two laptops that he has forgot the password to the accounts and asked if I could help, he wants them reformatted but wants documents off of them. Do you guys know of any program that can get into Windows without the password?

Thanks :tinfoil:

[Leomhann]

a rock

[Puddle]

http://www.openwall.com/passwords/micro ... 2003-vista (http://www.openwall.com/passwords/microsoft-windows-nt-2000-xp-2003-vista)

But you can do this:
http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sudhir/Hackin ... _Hack.html (http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sudhir/Hacking/Win_XP_Hack.html)

I did a similar thing to my buds 98. Went into safemode and deleated the password file.
Can't remember what it was now...

[Guy Montag]

First thing I would try is booting with a CD bootable OS like Knoppix and see if you can find the files and copy them on a flash drive or something to that effect. You didn't mention which version of windows the laptops had.

[Liebgott]

I assume its Windows XP since they are kinda new, but he never told me, and I have Knoppix and another one like that, but not sure where to look exactly. Thanks for the help guys

[Cheeto]

Almost ALL of the time you can just boot into safe mode (hit F8 as the machine boots and keep tapping it till you see the safe mode selection screen) and then that will show a 'secret' account called Administrator that has no password but can remove or change passwords on existing accounts.

[Guy Montag]

Thats only necessary on XP home, on XP Pro you can just type it in. Of course he said accounts plural so I assumed they'd forgotten the Administrator password, which of course isn't necessarily blank. Dell's sometimes have a administrative account called 'Owner'.

If none of the above works, here is a set of instructions which requires a XP CD and the product keys to be re-entered.

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=305

Or if you want the easy no risk way out, this website has a service which you either pay to get the password decrypted immediately, or wait 3 days and you can look it up.

http://www.loginrecovery.com/

[Cheeto]

Also, google for instructions on how to read the password from the SAM file using Linux.

[Shade-of-Grey]

if you take a large magnet and put it up against the harddrive, it will suck up the information, you can then put it onto another harddrive by waving it over that one.

[HS the Whap]

If he pulls out his penis, in your presence, and then slaps it on the keyboard that will do the trick.

[Pumpenfarten]

if you take a large magnet and put it up against the harddrive, it will suck up the information, you can then put it onto another harddrive by waving it over that one.

What he said

[Liebgott]

I'm not fucking stupid, I know what a magnet does to hard drives. Thanks for all the help, well, to the ones who actually gave help. :ninja:

[Cheeto]

if you take a large magnet and put it up against the harddrive, it will suck up the information, you can then put it onto another harddrive by waving it over that one.
You ever wanna totally fuck over a drive, dip that bitch in ferrofluid and then rub neodymium magnets on it.

[Puddle]

Best way to screw up a Hard drive without destroying it.

1) double click on teh my computer Icon
2) right click on C drive
3) select format
4) select yes.

If windows said "Cannot format as this is a system drive."

Thenbreak out the magnet.

[Cheeto]

Best way to screw up a Hard drive without destroying it.

1) double click on teh my computer Icon
2) right click on C drive
3) select format
4) select yes.

If windows said "Cannot format as this is a system drive."

Thenbreak out the magnet.
Yeah because that'd only take about 10 minutes to recover the data from...

[Puddle]

Yeah because that'd only take about 10 minutes to recover the data from...
:zirky:

Ya know what's real funny. Back in 95 I was working at a pawn shop. Some guy pawned his topo the line pentium and it was right on the floor. I'm talkin to this guy and his kid goes over to the computer. I've got one eye on him. He's clicken around a bit and looked at the games list. Then he went and clicked on to the system info. He proceded to right click on the c drive and moved the mouse down to format. "YOU LITTLE FUCKER!" Went through my head. I quickly ran over and grabbed his hand took it off the mouse. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?" The drop down moved off the format but he knew I seen him. Told his father what he was doing and he was real real mad. The kid adimantly said "No I wasn't No I wasn't" Uh uhh I seen you "You Little Bastard!"(In my head).
"Why are you in that dropdown, I seen you on format. (Showed his father) He looked like kid caught with stolen candy.
Deleted the shortcut.

Little fuckin bastard! Remember you could format the system drive back then!