Comments on: Change Your Forgotten Windows Password with the Linux System Rescue CD

By: mwambu G collins

mwambu G collins — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:44:16 +0000

hi, did everything but when i restarted my pc, it asks for the same old password yet i can not access the control panel…
it simply does not open the user manager option…
my DOS too works not..
any other option?

By: Geoffrey collins Mwambu

Geoffrey collins Mwambu — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00:31 +0000

Thanks a lot,
This is one of the greatest online success.
A colleague had his laptop password lost, i did not want to disappoint him, n there4 took up the task…
it was challenging at first especially with the path n right way to wright but i overcame…
thank big

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:23:22 +0000

Humm. Interesting to see how secure windows logins are really…

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:44:45 +0000

I only get to the part “root@sysresccd /root %” and I type in “ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/win” and it doesn’t work. am i typing in the wrong thing or should i type in something else?

By: Anil

Anil — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:23:45 +0000

I have the same problem – does not boot off CD though CD is the 1st boot option.

By: Brett

Brett — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:46:33 +0000

Hey i have a custom built desktop computer with Vista and burned the recovery file to a cd with NERO and placed the boot cd into the drive and changed the bios settings to boot the cd first yet nothing happens after booting and booting over again. All i have quickly is the brand INTEL screen that says press for BIOS and thats it. No “press any key to boot cd” or anything.

Do I have to do anything to the ISO image file?

Does it matter if I use a CD or DVD rewritable disc?

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:22:37 +0000

Thanks for this walk through. I tried this and everything worked except the user is not listed. Two users have admin privileges, one is the “Administrator” the other is some random person’s name which is not the name of the only user listed. I successfully changed the password of this random account in case it would work, but still couldn’t log in. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I don’t know why people keep posting these other “easier,” “free” solutions; they all cost $20-30 and system rescue is free.

By: fiona

fiona — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:17:38 +0000

You can create a new CD to reset your password, as following:

※.Login to a computer that can link to Internet. Download Windows Password Unlocker 4.0 and decompress it on that PC. Note that: there is a .ISO file. Burn the .ISO file to a CD.
※. Get out the newly created CD and insert it to the locked computer.
※. re-booted the locked computer and then followed the process of instructions. Just a few steps, the old password was removed.”’
※. Setting new password:
Step one: Open the “Control Panel”
Step two: Click the “User Account ”
Step three: Select the account you wanna to set a new password.
Step four: Click “changing Account ” and “set up password”, then fill out the form as listed. Click “Create Password”.
Thus, you have a personal login ID and Password, any one has no right to login to your computer with out this info.

By: trobe

trobe — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:49:13 +0000

Not working for me, XP pro don’t want the new password too, i think it’sn’t changed, i use the “-o force” switch too, maybe it’s because i use sp2 ?
I try to unlock the account too, it works, but the password seem to don’t be changed when i reboot
So i try blank password and then it’s work ! Maybe it’s because i use fr keyboard ?

Thanks

By: SUREN

SUREN — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:28:07 +0000

hi i need help…my college gave me a acer laptop..with linux istalled of partially installed..i dont know…when i on the laptop its on dos promt..and i dont know how to load in to the system…and i wish to install xp on lt…it runs the cd…..and give me an error msg blue screen apear check ur harddisk or hdd controller…maybe damage or so on…and ask me to checkdisk/f…i cant run this too ad no c: apears on the dos promt…help me…im confused

suren