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Offline NT Password & Registry Editor, Bootdisk / CD Note july 2005: I have problems catching up with my mail for the last 2-3 months, and will probably have more problems for a few months more. You may get late response, or no response at all if you mail me. I've put together a single floppy or CD which contains things needed to edit the passwords on most systems. The bootdisk supports standard (dual)IDE controllers (built in), a lot of SATA-controllers, and most SCSI-controllers with the drivers supplied in a seperate archive below. PS/2 keyboard or USB-keyboard supported (mouse not required) It does not need any other special hardware, it will run on 486 or higher, with at least 32MB (I think) ram or more. Tested on: NT 351, NT 4 (all versions and SP), Windows 2000 (all versions), Windows XP (all versions, also SP2), Windows Server 2003 (at least Enterprise). If used on users that have EFS encrypted files, and the system is XP, all encrypted files for that user will be UNREADABLE! and cannot be recovered unless you remember the old password again If you don't know if you have encrypted files or not, you most likely don't have them.
FAQ before mailing me questions If you have the CD, all drivers are included. zip file unzipped (in \scsi), or put a selection of the drivers you need in the \scsi folder on the main floppy, there should be enough space for maybe a couple of drivers. In the latter case you don't need to carry around and swap floppies. Overview 1 Disk select, tell which disk contains the Windows system.
Select d to go to the driver select menu for auto-probe (based what's found on the PCI bus) * If auto-probe won't work, you may have to load something manually, select m to do that (like the old system) 2 HOW TO MANUALLY LOAD DRIVERS Try auto-probe first, only do this if you have to manually try to load some or all drivers.
m ==== DISK DRIVER / SCSI DRIVER select ==== You may now insert or swap to the SCSI-drivers floppy Press enter when done: Found 1 floppy drives Found only one floppy, using it..
On the selected partition/disk, the main files for windows can theoretically be anywhere. And we must find the registry files to be able to edit them. There are however some usual places: * winnt35/system32/config - Windows NT 351 * winnt/system32/config - Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000 * windows/system32/config - Windows XP/2003 and often Windows 2000 upgraded from Windows 98 or earlier. These usual paths will be checked, and if found, they will be suggested as the default. Selected 1 Mounting on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 NTFS volume version 31 Filesystem is: NTFS ========================================================= . Step TWO: Select PATH and registry files ========================================================= What is the path to the registry directory?
Here you can enter the username you want to reset the password for. NOTE: It is case-sensitive, write it exact as listed (without the < and > of course) Or if the name uses some characters that cannot be displayed, enter it's ID number (RID), like this: 0x1f4 would select administrator.
Also, if the account is locked, you will be asked if you wish to unlock it (not shown here) We go for the blank password option WHICH IS HIGLY RECOMMENDED over setting a new one.
Hives that have changed: # Name 0 - OK ========================================================= . Step FOUR: Writing back changes ========================================================= About to write file back!
OK Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully. NTFS volume version is 31 Setting required flags on partition... OK NTFS partition /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 was processed successfully. NOTE: Windows will run a diskcheck (chkdsk) on next boot. NOTE: this is to ensure disk intergity after the changes ***** EDIT COMPLETE ***** You can try again if it somehow failed, or you selected wrong New run?
The disk fixup is only run on NTFS filesystems, and will force chkdsk next time windows boots. Lots of things can go wrong, but most faults won't damage your system. The most critical moment is when writing back the registry files to NTFS. Sometimes it emits errors, even if the new data in fact has been written. The most common problem seen during 2004 is that it does not change the password, or even messes it up so it is impossible to log in with that user.
For linux-knowledged people, you may do things manually if the scripts fail, you have shells on tty1-tty4 (ALT F1 - ALT F4). Bootdisk history 2005-03-03 * Driver update only, with a few fixes to the autoprobe, too. Select 'd' from the disk menu if needed, and it should do it's job automatically. zip) has now grown too large to unzip to a single floppy, so just leave out things you don't need.
In best case, they leak space, in worst case, it may corrupt the file. NOTE: This does not generally affect password changing, since password reset just overwrites a few bytes in place, it does not reallocate space. Also new docs, see above :) * Support for setting the entry that makes RecoveryConsole skip prompt for admin password has been added.
here (also my site) Mirror, in case you have problems getting the files from here. I cannot guarantee that they are updated or that they havent changed anything!
ListSoft's mirror NOTE THAT THE BOOTDISK CONTAINS CRYPTHOGRAPHIC CODE, and that it may be ILLEGAL to RE-EXPORT it from your country. bin) is a block-to-block representation of the actual floppy, and the file cannot simply be copied to the floppy. bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k How to make and use the drivers floppy NOTE: Not all files will fit on a floppy, so leave out what you think you do not need! This can be burned to CD using whatever burner program you like, most support writing ISO-images. Often double-clikcing on it in explorer will pop up the program offering to write the image to CD. iso" you didn't burn the image but instead added the file to a CD. I cannot help with this, please consult you CD-software manual or friends. The CD will boot with most BIOSes, see your manual on how to set it to boot from CD. Some will auto-boot when a CD is in the drive, some others will show a boot-menu when you press ESC or F10/F12 when it probes the disks, some may need to have the boot order adjusted in setup. Bootdisk credits and license Most of the stuff on the bootdisk is either GPL, BSD or similar license, you can basically do whatever you want with all of it, the sourcecode and licenses can be found at their sites, I did not change/patch anything.
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