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I lost my windows XP password and I cannot format the hard drive. I have windows 98 on a partition on my hard drive. Is there any way to retrieve my password. Any help would be greatly appericiated. Thanks
Don't take this the wrong way but how do you loose your password or forget it? You are not the first to ask this question and I know I am not giving you the answer you want but I just don't understand how one can forget something that is very important to remember.
Laters,
KTTD
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what KTTD is trying to say: "we could tell you, but then we have to shoot you" :))
just format your xp partition w/o touching your win98 and reinstall xp
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Try booting into safemode > use administrater account (assuming you've not forgotten THAT password) and simply change the password u use to login.
if you cant do that your pretty muchly SOL.. you could always reinstall XP over itsself and see if that does any good
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About "recovering" NT pass
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A hacker say' once that the best way to
find other people password is simply to
ask for that pass ;)Nice try buddy../.
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you can still possibly get in.
1st, if you did not use ntfs, boot to 98, go to your xp winrootdir/system32/config dir. there is a file there called SAM, delete it, then reboot, when you reboot, your default id should be administrator with no password. of course if you used ntfs, then you can access this drive from a fat boot. now you would need to go to sysinterals and get something that boots to ntfs with read/write capabilities. then you do the same thing, delete the SAM file from winroot/system32/config.wah-la, your back in as administrator with no password, and of course no other ids
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To hack xp is a easy task but you should know something about regedit.
you also get few softwares for retriving the admin password for xp. I cannot tell you more about it.
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Heres one for ya....I just finished an XP install......didn't put in a password...only a username. Then when I start for the first time..it asks for a password that I never put in...hummmmmm, go figure. Anybody know the fix besides format and reinstall?
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Heres one for ya....I just finished an XP install......didn't put in a password...only a username. Then when I start for the first time..it asks for a password that I never put in...hummmmmm, go figure. Anybody know the fix besides format and reinstall?
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Can you find the log-in password for windows xp pro. I'm the adm. I can log in with the account of my brother, but ik can't go in folder and change properties. My brother kills my when I must format and my daddy too. I only want to now how I delete the log-in password. Then I can change my password log-in. thx
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Deleteing the SAM file doesn't work. When the computer reboots, it does into safe mode and immediately reboots. Good thing I copied that SAM file to diskette first. Whew.
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Okay Ide have to say that have of these responses Are retarded as Bleh bleh Hacker this hacker that The dude Asked If you could help him Not if you could blab youyr mouth about Him being a hacker And O whats he gonna do hack his own computer The only good telling him that info would be that hed be able to Get passed the password on a pc he was at not remotely So im thinking you dont even know how to get passed it And I once forgot my password for Xp And was in the same position and Just like now there was a bunch of Lil know it alls That Just use excuses to not help
this is a simple and easy way to get passed the Password That works
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html
Enjoy SC
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well, I've a similar problem that happened today:
the pos won't boot because it said the SAM file was corrupted; I boot off the cd, go in the recovery console, rename the SAM file and now, it won't boot in normal more, it won't boot in safe mode, I can't access the recovery console anymore because it asks for the administrator password which it doesn't accept anymore...any idea before I throw the machine out of the window ?
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