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Title: Windows 8 Problem (Solved)
Post by: VicTully on May 12, 2015, 04:43:08 pm

I have a retired gentlreman that brought his wife's HP Envy m6 laptop to me this morning. It has Windows 8 on it. The problem she has is that they were away on an extended vacation and she forgot her Windows password. This is not a hack request, since I could just reload the machine withe Windows 8 (or 7) and be done with it. She has too many family items on the laptop. She just wants to recover the existing password so she can get her personal items off the machine and onto CD.

I found a utility on Warez-BB that says it will recover and/or reset the windows password on any windows machine from XP thru Windows 8 using Linux. But when I try it, it says there is no windows on the machine.

Can you help me with something to recover her password?

Thanks in advance.


vic

Title: Re: Windows 8 Problem
Post by: Shane on May 12, 2015, 06:55:06 pm

This is the one I use :-)

Its a little advanced, but I only use it to remove passwords, not change them. Works really well.

http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/

Shane

Title: Re: Windows 8 Problem (Solved)
Post by: VicTully on May 12, 2015, 07:58:23 pm

Thank you so much. I got it fixed tonight.

Again, I do appreciate everything.

vic

Title: Re: Windows 8 Problem (Solved)
Post by: VicTully on May 13, 2015, 09:26:40 am

I also found that Rescatux works and is free. It does other things like Hiren's does.

vic

Title: Re: Windows 8 Problem (Solved)
Post by: Shane on May 14, 2015, 01:24:39 pm

Havent heard of that one yet, I will have to give it a look when I get some more time :-)

Shane

Title: Re: Windows 8 Problem (Solved)
Post by: Boggin on May 14, 2015, 02:45:28 pm

Quote from: Shane on May 14, 2015, 01:24:39 pm

Havent heard of that one yet, I will have to give it a look when I get some more time :-)

Shane

For info, Shane - http://sourceforge.net/projects/rescatux/

Title: Re: Windows 8 Problem (Solved)
Post by: VicTully on May 14, 2015, 03:41:14 pm

Thanks, Boggin. That's where I got it.

Again, thanks for all the assistance.

vic