In many tutorials, even books (Hacking Exposed) the tool of choice for copying the SAM file or equivalent (SAM._) from the HD by booting it to another OS is NTFSDOSPro from System Internals . The only drawbacks of this tool, if you can call them that, are: 1.command based; 2. you need 2 floppies to boot the system (w/ XP you need 3)

Here is a replacement for all you admins who want to audit your users local pwds in much easier and user friendly fashion...

I apologize if all of you know this already... just trying to be helpfull...

Watch out for your users... some of them are very bitter

here's the 1 floppy-copy tool: love ya