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Reset Windows password - help please!


  • Subject: Reset Windows password - help please!
  • From: Tim Hawes <timsyahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:36:26 +0100

Perhaps not the usual password-reset problem...

I've got a friend with a dead laptop (suspected mobo fault) but with a
working HDD. Connecting the HDD to another PC via a USB HDD adaptor she can
see files in the common user area but not those in her user area which has
a
user ID & password.

She knows the user password it's just that the laptop wont boot, so firing
it up and resetting it, or booting it from CD with a freeware utility to
reset it are out of the question.
We/she has no spare similar laptop to put the HDD into to boot up and
remove the password.

How can we/she access her user files - the adaptor doesn't prompt for a
password etc. and hovering over the folder says its "empty" (it's
not).

There must be a way, and I'm struggling with the right terms to google
with.
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Tim.


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