Have you heard too much about ways to reset Windows forgotten password? Now let me tell you a free tool for Windows
password recovery - Chntpw.
Like other tools, Chntpw has two existence
forms, USB and CD.
- Reset Windows Lost Password with USB Disk
- Recover Windows Forgotten Password with CD Disk
1. Reset Windows Lost Password with USB Disk
Follows the below steps:
Step 1: Grab Universal USB Installer
and download Ubuntu 10.10.
Step 2: Create a Bootable Ubuntu Live
USB
2-1: Run the Universal USB Installer
and select Ubuntu 10.10
2-2: Click Browse to select the Ubuntu
ISO file.
2-3: Select the USB drive and set the
persistent file size.
Once all settings are in place, click Create to begin creating a bootable
Ubuntu Live USB.
Step 3: Boot Computer from Ubuntu Live
USB
3-1: Press ESC, F2, F10, F9 etc. to
reboot PC and enter computer BIOS.
3-2: Set USB/Removable Hard disk as
first boot option in the BIOS settings.
3-3: Save the changes and reboot the
system from Ubuntu Live USB.
Step 4: Install Chntpw
4-1: Press Ctrl + Alt + T to open a
Terminal window.
4-2: Type sudo apt-get install chntpw
and click Enter.
The process of download and
installation would go on without further assistance. Once it’s finished and
your back at the regular prompt, simply type exit and hit Enter.
Step 5: Reset Windows Password
5-1: Mount the hard disk partition
where Windows is installed in according to access all the removable drives and
hard disk partitions from Places menu.
5-2: Mount the drive with Windows
folder.
Open all partitions to find the drive
with Windows folder. When you find it, make a note of the drive’s label that
appears in the menu bar of the file browser.
5-3: Open Applications menu from
panel, and select Terminal from Accessories menu.
In Terminal window, enter cd /media
command, and then list all mounted media drives with ls command.
5-4: Navigate to drive that contains
Windows folder.
Type:
cd <hard drive label>
cd Windows/System32/config
Open config folder and then you can
make changes to Security Accounts Manager (SAM).
5-5: Read Windows user account
credentials and make changes to save passwords with running chntpw tool.
sudo chntpw SAM
The sudo chntpw SAM command can only
make changes to Windows admin account password. If you want to change standard
user’s password, use the switch –u followed by correct user account name.
sudo chntpw –u <user account
name> SAM
If you’ve changed the user account
password, reboot your system, and exit Ubuntu Live USB. If you’ve just reset
the admin password, Windows will not prompt you to enter the password. However,
if you changed the password, please log in to Windows with new password.
2. Recover Windows Forgotten Password with CD Disk
Step 1: Download Chntpw to a computer
you can access.
Step 2: Create a CD Windows password reset disk.
Unzip cd110511.zip and get a Chntpw
ISO file and burn the Chntpw ISO file to CD disc with a burn tool.
Step 3: Set your locked computer boot
from CD-ROM.
When power on the computer, press BIOS
entry key to enter BIOS setting screen, and move CD-ROM to the first boot drive
place. Save boot changes and boot your computer.
Step 4: Reset Windows password to
blank
4-1 Select the partition where Windows
was installed on:
select 1 = show propbable Windows
(NTFS) partitions only
4-2 Select path and registry files
The default path
Windows/system32/config is correct, so just press Enter to go on.
4-3 Select which part of registry to
load, use predefined choices.
We want to reset password, so choose
the first one: Password reset [sam system security]
4-4 What to do with the user and
password
Select 1 – Edit user data and
passwords
4-5 Select a user to reset its password.
As you can see, there list all the
user names and their password status. If you want to change Administrator
password, type Administrator and press Enter.
4-6 Clear (blank) user password.
Of all the options of menu, the first
one Clear (blank) user password is the most simple and effective option. Select
1 to clear Administrator password to blank instantly.
4-7 Password is cleared successfully.
When the Password cleared pops up, it
means password has been cleared successfully.
Quit out and press Ctrl + Alt + Del to
restart computer, logging in to Windows without password.
All above introduction is about Windows password reset with free Chntpw. But maybe you will find it a little difficult.
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