Friday, January 4, 2013

Hiren Boot : Administrator Password Removed --win XP , Win 7 etc

Today we will discuss How to remove Administrator Password by Physically accessing the system. Some Time we forget our system password & and we have some Important Data on desktop & we can't Recover our window so to save this Important Data, we need to Reset the password . Here I want to explain some thing advancely That where the administrator password is stored actually in the windows system Password stores . The windows password is stored in the SAM (Security Account Manager) file and  This file is stored in the windows directory C:\WINDOWS\system32\config



This file is in the Decrypted & Running state we can't access this file easily & neither we can open this file by using notepad or any text editor in the running state . we can only access this file by using the offline mode  or we can say if we boot any live operating system on it then we can easily open this file .

Requirement :

  • Hiren Boot Disk
  • Window whose administrator password need to remove  


Here I am using Hiren Boot live CD  you can download this Live ISO from Hiren Live Here  it is an zip format extract it and make Disk . 

Now to erase the Administrator Password follows the steps :

Step 1 : Insert the Disk and Restart your System it will show you 



Step 2 : select offline NT/2000/xp/vista/7 Password Changer and press enter now it shows you Boot  option then again press ENTER as you press enter it will load Linux kernels 


  
Step 3 : Now select disk where the window installation files here i select 1 where my window is installed and enter 

Step 4 : Now we need to select the path and registry files By default the path is given so we press enter so that the default  path is selected . 



Step 5 : Now select option 1 to password reset  [SAM system security] 
Now the SAM file is loader and here we can edit the SAM file .
Step 6 : Now select 1 for Edit user data and password .



Step 7 : Here we can see the list of the users & also it shows us the writes of the users here we can see three users having admin write and these all are password protected . Here we can't see the password we can perform the following options here 

  • clear user password
  • set new password (change password)
  • make a simple user admin user 
  • unlock and enable user account


Step 8 : from all the above options we select 1 to clear password and as we press enter the password is cleaned .



thanks & keep learning .....

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