Break or Reset Administrator password in XP
So if you have forgotten the password of your admin account in Windows XP or just want to break in the Admin account of your college or office, do not worry, you can easily do that. However, I recommend this trick only for your personal use. There are numerous ways available to do so but the best possible way is to use EBCD (Emergency Boot CD), download from here.
Procedure:
1. After you have downloaded the EBCD, extract and run “makeebcd.exe” to create an iso image for burning on the disk.
2. Set Bios to boot from the CD Drive and insert the CD created in above step. You will see the following image, type 5 to select NT password for editor (Linux-based).
3. Then press Enter in the next step to proceed.
4. Press Enter again if you don’t keep Windows on SCSI drive.
5. Select which drive contains your installation files or just press Enter to accept the default value given in the bracket. If your installation is in C: drive just press Enter.
6. Press Enter in the next step to accept default values.
7. Press Enter again.
8. To enter password, press Enter to select the default option.
9. Select the username. To enter password for Administrator just press Enter.
10. To change the password just leave it blank and change it later after login (modifying password at this step will not work).
11. Press Enter to confirm.
12. Type ‘!’ and press Enter in the next step.
13. Type ‘q’ to quit.
14. Type ‘Y’ to write the SAM files.
Congratulations the password has been reset. So just login with no password and enter yours.
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August 13th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
i have most simplest way…..that is
safe mode………
is u did not get the way
just tell me
i can give u whole procedure.
bhw143@yahoo.com
August 13th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
hey friend i know the way you are talking about but let me also update your dictionary that the method of the safe mode you talking about will not work if the Admin acct has the Password set(i hav come across several systems with this thing in our college).
The method i gave is just perfect and takes little time.
August 20th, 2008 at 2:17 am
hey (admin) you’re right bcoz I know the safe mood is only work at this time when was there is no real administrator’s password in windows xp the real admins password is set at the starting of the installing of the windows thanks buddy for that software
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Hey Friend,
this software didn’t work on my computer
when i boot from cd
it boot give all option then i choose 5)NT password for editor (Linux-based)but
then message appear that unable to create.or connect…files.(something like that)
then computer gets hangs for long time
please if there is any solution please send me friend
i have administrator password,another limited account user
hardware Intel processor p4 3.0 Ghz
motherboard Intel945GCCR
using windows xp2007 Sp pack2
anti virus eset smart security
firewall comodo firewall pro
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Well this is the first time i have come across this type of problem, it could be a problem of image file. I advice you to download the software again and run the exe file in some other PC than yours and burn on to the CD.
September 19th, 2008 at 11:16 am
in my collage there is no cd rom or floppy drive but they support booting via USB drive could U suggest me that Can I reset the password theough a pendrive making it bootable and how..plz…..
September 19th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Hi avi,
your problem was similar to mine as there was no CD drive in my college PCs as well, lol. Here is how you can reset the password:
1. download the software from http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/cd080802.zip and read its README.TXT file.
This will solve your problem, but ensure to give the First Priority to USB in BIOS.
2. You can also see this post of mine to make the Pen Drive bootable for other purposes.
September 20th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
THANK DEAR
I WILL DO IT ….
October 19th, 2008 at 2:20 am
what that cd does is that it actually boots a lighter and small version of linux as basic operating system to run the password reset utility but, as of now linux doesn’t support file writing on disks with NTFS file system, so , of course these disks load the SAM file (Windows security and password management file) and successfully edits it in memory but it cannot write on to an NTFS partition, thus making it obsolete for systems installed with NTFS file systems.
October 19th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
I guess you are correct but i have seen the CD working for all file systems supported by XP.
October 30th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
salam
friends i want a break the password of administrator send me email of method plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz
October 30th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Hey buddy, the above post tell you step by step procedure to break it and with snapshots, why do u need in a mail?