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  • Got two PCs whose passwords I have long forgotten....

    From SH@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 26 15:02:14 2022
    one is a Windows Vista box and the other is a Windows 7 or 8 box

    So How do I get into them when I've forgotten the password to both of them?

    I did wonder about starting up with a Linux Live CD and then retrieving
    the files off the hard drives?

    Will that work as Linux might have trouble accessing files that were
    created by a different owner?

    If so I do I change the ownership permissions on windows created files
    from within a Linux environment for the purposes of being able to open
    them and to copy them?

    S.

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  • From Jaimie Vandenbergh@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Nov 26 18:46:59 2022
    On 26 Nov 2022 at 15:02:14 GMT, "SH" <[email protected]> wrote:

    one is a Windows Vista box and the other is a Windows 7 or 8 box

    So How do I get into them when I've forgotten the password to both of them?

    I did wonder about starting up with a Linux Live CD and then retrieving
    the files off the hard drives?

    Will that work as Linux might have trouble accessing files that were
    created by a different owner?

    If so I do I change the ownership permissions on windows created files
    from within a Linux environment for the purposes of being able to open
    them and to copy them?

    S.

    As long as neither have encrypted disks (or files) you'll be fine. The
    Linux NTFS driver defaults to ignoring ownerships, so you can just grab
    the files that way.

    You can do it properly by nobbling the admin password from an ntpasswd
    boot disk, a venerable tool:
    https://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/

    More modern guide for making a bootable stick at https://adamtheautomator.com/ntpasswd/

    Cheers - Jaimie
    --
    Sent from my Sun 4/60

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Jaimie Vandenbergh on Sat Nov 26 22:45:57 2022
    Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:

    You can do it properly by nobbling the admin password from an ntpasswd
    boot disk, a venerable tool:
    https://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/

    this.

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