In my earlier article, I described various tools that can be used to reset Windows password. To use these tools, I have to create a bootable CD from the ISO image given.
I have encountered one problem recently whereby one of the laptop passed to me has no floppy and the external CD-ROM is missing. Worst still, nobody knows the Windows Adminstrator login password.
Luckily, the notebook supports booting from USD hard drive. After going through the tools that I have, I managed to reset the password using my thumb or pen drive.
- Download the bootable CD or ISO image from the website.
- Using another computer, create a bootable CD from the image.
- As described in the README.txt in the bootable CD, do the following
To make a bootable USB drive / key: 1. Copy all files from this CD onto the USB drive. It cannot be in a subdirectory on the drive. You do not need delete files already on the drive. 2. Install the bootloader: On the USB drive, there should now be a file "syslinux.exe". Run this from a command line, like this: j:\syslinux.exe -ma j: replace j with some other letter if your USB drive is on another drive letter than j: If it says nothing, it did install the bootloader. Please note that you may have to adjust settings in your computers BIOS setup to boot from USB. Also, some BIOS (often older machines) simply won't boot from USB anyway.
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