Comments on: Reset Windows Password /w KNOPPIX.

By: red high heel shoes

red high heel shoes — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:05:39 +0000

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By: plasmidmap

plasmidmap — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:49:36 +0000

Totally awesome! If you have Ubuntu installed (either on same HDD or another) it’s very simple to reset the password:

- Mount the NTFS Partition
- sudo aptitude install chntpw
- chntpw /media/disk/WINDOWS/system32/config/SAM
- Follow instructions…

Finished!!

Thank you!

By: BBT

BBT — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:48:47 +0000

To retrieve the package on Debian style distros, siply use:

sudo apt-get install chntpw

By: A. Nobody

A. Nobody — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:30:54 +0000

Thanks for the tut. It worked as advertised.

I don’t know if you are still maintaining this, but I was able to download the pkg from the debian website and install it by clicking on the icon on the desktop (launching kpkg). To do this, you do need to set a password for root. You can do this by opening the shell, typing ’su’, then typing ‘passwd’, then follow the instructions. i think thats easier than converting and extracting the package … etc.

By: Maxwell Bottiger

Maxwell Bottiger — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:36:10 +0000

Thank you very much for this tutorial. There are far too many incomplete explanations of this procedure, but this worked very well for me. I really wish I could find documentation like this on a more regular basis.