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RE: Re: [OT] Help winternals locksmith required


  • Subject: RE: Re: [OT] Help winternals locksmith required
  • From: "UKHA" <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 11:24:23 +0100
  • References: <MDAEMON-F200412262027.AA271996md50000192553@beagles-den.demon.co.uk>



On 26/12/2004 at 16:27 Ian wrote:

>Grab the Emergency Boot CD from :
>
>http://www.short-media.com/download.php?d=66
>
>It's a multi-purpose recovery toolkit that (amongst other things)
allows
>you
>to compile an ISO image with just the bits you need (hence, smaller) -
I
>believe that you should be able to rebuild it to fit on a USB key to
boot
>from that instead. There is also a Floppy sized toolkit included in the
>download that does some of the stuff required - password reset (not
>recovery)
>
>That being said - best solution is probably to source a laptop CD-rom
drive
>(you can almost always fit a CD-Rom in place of the FDD on older
laptops)
>and use the full blown emergency boot CD.
>
>Ian.
>

I'd seriously leave this as a LAST resort ... scare you and your admins
silly by using :

http://www.elcomsoft.com/download/pwsex.zip

to simply open the SAM and crack it.. If you can log in to the machine with
ANY user then try this first to reveal the passwords...

Scared me, but also helped me a lot too :D

Andy





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