Forgot Admin Password

maroush · November 1, 2009, 4:45pm

Someone i know wants to ask the following question to all you helpful guys out there:

“i forgot my adminsitrator password and cant get access to my laptop, when asked to reset password, that’s where the glitch is my CD drive no longer works, what to do???”

Can any of you delightful C&IT contributors help?

Sheeda_Pistol_1 · November 1, 2009, 5:54pm

Re: Forgot Admin Password

Loaded question

what's the issue here? Forgotten pass or cd rom not working

Sinner · November 1, 2009, 5:56pm

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format c: /q

TofiBaba · November 1, 2009, 7:04pm

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Reinstall windows in a diff folder, back up the data and rebuild the whole PC. :D

Sheeda_Pistol_1 · November 1, 2009, 7:08pm

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How about she just buy a new PC?

Lucid_Chaotic · November 1, 2009, 7:16pm

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just get an external USB CD/DVD drive and use the system rescue CD - details here

coOoLBreeze · November 2, 2009, 6:32pm

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^ ditto... or even few of the apps are available which can be installed in a USB Flash drive, and then you can boot the system through a USB flash, that can reset the password... I need to google it for you,,, but I m positive its out there on the internet.

aaho · November 2, 2009, 8:21pm

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What OS?

cricketplaya · November 2, 2009, 8:42pm

ditto.

Sheeda_Pistol_1 · November 2, 2009, 8:58pm

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Microsoft Ditto 2.0 ?

Orpheus · November 2, 2009, 10:13pm

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windows vista.

coolbreeze, i'd be greatful if you could source me the info. on how i go about doing that.

Lucid, i'll look into that, its confusing me this moment.

aaho · November 2, 2009, 10:32pm

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^^ Try this:

Active@ Password Changer

TofiBaba · November 3, 2009, 12:03am

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Google Peter Nordahl

coOoLBreeze · November 5, 2009, 3:46pm

http://www.thehive.be/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=17

or

Windows Login Recovery free download. Windows Login Recovery is a powerful yet a small size password security tool specially to remove the lost or forgotten Windows passwords, help those w…

Tofi, thanks as always..

Orpheus · November 6, 2009, 10:27pm

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can't do any off that, as once again i get prompted for admin password, thus changes cannot be made. Uff!

aaho · November 6, 2009, 10:45pm

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^^ not even Active@ Password Changer.. because I have used it many times.. and worked great.

coOoLBreeze · November 7, 2009, 4:55am

is your hard disk encrypted with somethign like POintSec

magnificent · November 7, 2009, 7:35am

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reboot it

Orpheus · November 12, 2009, 1:50pm

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i did it, i was typing in random passwords i've used before and somehow its worked.