Re: locked out of XP, need file access

[Jan Lühr <jluehr () gmx net>]

Greetings,

Am Mittwoch, 24. Dezember 2003 16:45 schrieb J. Yoon:
> I'm locked out of my own Windows XP box.
> Being a paranoid,
> I have not provided myself with any password hints
> even for the administrator mode.
>
> I do remember about 2 characters from it though
> but there's just too many combinations.

Do you remember the length, over characters, kind of characters?
If so, you can reduce the possible combination down to a few thousend and 
easily break the hash  in the sam database.

> There are personal files in there that I need to access.
>
> I remember that with the old Win98,
> it was possible to do something with the .pwd file
> (not that we needed it,
> since all the files are accessible anyway)
> but I'm sure things have changed significantly since.

They do. Win98 is a single, XP multi-user user platform.

> I did infact try using a XP password recovery tool kit
> and global-resetter thing I got from the net...
> but the software asks me to enter root password

root-password? What the hell are you talking about. There is no root in 
the M$-hell ;). (Sorry, but the word-play was to attraticve ;)

> and then tells me to get lost.
> It's strange and ironic,
> because the passwd is precisely what I'm trying to figure out.

If you don't have any encryption delete or modifiy the sam database with a 
ram-disk linux.
Ask google.

Keep smiling
yanosz
-- 
... Lehrst du ihn fischen, so ernährt er sich für immer.
... Lehrst du ihn Plutonium anzureichern, so bombt er für immer.
(chin. Weisheit)


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