Recover Windows XP, 2000, 2003 and NT passwords in a breeze for free… YES FREE!
I was able to use the cd image below to reset an administrators password to blank and then log in to a machine whose owner recently died.
Offline NT Password & Registry Editor (v060213 – February 2006)
Petter Nordahl-Hagen has written a Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista offline password editor:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd
This is a utility to (re)set the password of any user that has a valid (local) account on your Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista system, by modifying the encrypted password in the registry’s SAM file.
You do not need to know the old password to set a new one.
It works offline, that is, you have to shutdown your computer and boot off a floppy disk or CD. The boot-disk includes stuff to access NTFS partitions and scripts to glue the whole thing together.
Works with syskey (no need to turn it off, but you can if you have lost the key)
Will detect and offer to unlock locked or disabled user accounts!
Caution: If used on users that have EFS encrypted files, and the system is XP or later service packs on W2K, all encrypted files for that user will be UNREADABLE! and cannot be recovered unless you remember the old password again!
Download links:
cd070409.zip (~3MB) – Bootable CD image with newer drivers
bd050303.zip (~1.1MB) – Bootdisk image, date 050303.
sc050303.zip(~1.4MB) – SCSI-drivers (050303) (only use newest drivers with newest bootdisk, this one works with bd050303)
To write these images to a floppy disk you’ll need RawWrite2 which is included in the Bootdisk image download. To create the CD you just need to use your favorite CD burning program and burn the .ISO file to CD.
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about 4 years ago
Hey Karl! I love this tool. It is a part of the original Ultimate Boot CD, as well as the newer Ultimate Boot CD 4 windows as well.
;-)
about 4 years ago
UBCD4 is great im from germany thanks for information!
about 2 years ago
I had been dying to try this disc out since the day I read about and then downloaded it. I finally got my chance yesterday, though it came in an unexpected form.
A neighbor was given a Windows XP machine that no one knew the passwords to. I told him about this nifty new disc I had. Would you believe it scared him and he didn’t want me to use it?
I was a bit bummed out until I remembered that six months ago my brother had sent me a hard drive from his former work machine, a Dell 4550. This was an XP machine that he had not long before repartitioned and added Ubuntu onto.
I plugged the hard drive into one of my machines, stuck the disc in and, in under five minutes, successfully wiped the old XP password.
This thing is strong medicine, folks. It spooks me to think what it could be used for by a person of evil intent. Until I used this disc to get into my brother’s old HDD, I had never really considered the need for encryption. Since yesterday’s quick and total success with the disk, I’ve reconsidered the need for encryption and have gone to CompuSec for some protection.
about 2 years ago
I would love to hear how your encryption is going. And if you have any interest in doing a small walk through I know a bunch of people that would be happy!
about 1 year ago
Thanks…worked perfectly! Made a very happy kid who couldn’t use her Christmas present!
about 7 months ago
anyone know if it work on Windows 7?