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Is there any to bypass the windows xp pro passwords i got a used laptop and it was password protected the user account at login screen and the administartors account also.
I was wondering if there is a way to bypass it with out having to format and reinstall.
Can anyone help me :confused: THXS
Get a hold of the previous owner, ask him for it.
Yeah, just log on (with the existing password) and then change it to whatever you want.
:cool:
Or you could just reinstall windows if you have the recovery Cd
That's the fun thing about used hardware, people usually never remember (or know to) format/reload the thing before they sell it and give it away. That's a security risk in itself when you think about it, because of personal documents and such which could have anything in them. Social Security numbers, phone numbers, contact information, passwords to whatever, ATM account numbers, etc.
But unless you can get the password off of the user who owns that account, you are pretty much stuck with a good format reload with whatever OS you own or whatever CDs might have come with the computer. But if you wanted to be nice to the people who owned it, you should probably just format/reload it anyway so you don't end up going through all of their personal documents if there are any.
Just a thought...
~AciD
Find out if thers any porn first...blackmail dude. Nah just kiddin i dont wanna get banned or anything from here. Have u talked to the guy yet since postin? AcidDriveHB....even alot of the HDD drives for sell on eBay arent formatted...or just partitioned wrong to make it look like its formatted. I read on some news sites a couple months ago where supposedly u could recover formatted data somehow. Crackers would buy old HDD's from flea markets or eBay or garage sells and then just salvage the old data and there they'd have some credit card numbers or personal data. It was supposed to be the new way of Identity theft but i havent heard anything more of it.
Yeah that's true, you can do that. You really do have to be careful who you are selling hard drives too. I wouldn't ever just sell it to someone I didn't know without really making sure the data was gone. That's why I don't sell any data storage devices on eBay or at garage sales or anything.
If people were smart though they would use a utility that would zero the drive, and then write junk data on the disk, then format it again. I have a utility that does that (along with 25 passes, etc). Data can't be recovered if there is other data written over that file on the drive.
Just a thought...
~AciD
Yeah, you can do these things or you can get yourself a copy of raw write for windows http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite.htm and make an NT/2000 password recovery floppy from the image on this site:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html
--TH13
Not sure but, wouldn't removing the bios battery for like 5 minutes erase all data?
For BIOS yes, that is usually how BIOS can be cleared if the BIOS reset jumper can not be found. Though the problem with laptops is, it's a little hard to find the BIOS battery or disconnect it due to the design of the boards. But pulling the BIOS battery will do nothing to the actual data on the hard drive itself. All informaiton is stored on there magnetically, not stored in powered curcuits like BIOS.
For your information...
~AciD
you could egt a copy of l0pht crack (if there is a guest account) and fun it and get the password that way but that constitutes a hacking so i dunno
there is a bootdisk program called ntpasswd that can change any password on an xp system with a bootdisk. The only drawback is, if there is any data encrypted using EFS or compressed with windows' compression protocol, the that data is no longer accessable unless you change the password back to what it was originally. NTPasswd can be found at http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html
Hey that sounds like a nice tool though. Because incase someone would steal your computer and try to get your files, as long as you kept things encrypted, you would still be safe. But have you tried the work around with using admin rights and changing the ownership to the user with the new password? I know I've done that ebfore with files I forgot to backup elsewhere and decrypt before formatting.
Just a thought...
~AciD
Ok I am not sure about this so please don't Flame me to death but you can reverse the polkarity. Simple if you get magnet and putit on the Laptop it will probably erase it the problem here I can't remember if it is going to destroy your Hard Drive.
Now for my speciality:
Here we go got a couple questions.
If your trying to see any of the data then this will not work.
What Os are you running. No the one on there which one are you going to run. Now if you are going to run Linux I can tell how to get by it if not I am kinda stuck.
First you need a friends computer and take the.
Is the D:/ Bootable
Where was I.
Go to a friend with Xp and go to Dos.
You know what Pm. And I will tell you the Linus way to get around it.
I anyone one else wants to know Pm me and I will let you know I got to check something though.
Ok just as a note if you want to recover the info. Give up now what I am going to tell writes over it.
Whizkid2300
Even that wont get rid of "all" the data. There are still ways to recover some of the data. Granted they involve ALOT more work. The best way to clear it is with a utility that 0's the drive then 1's the drives and then puts random data on the disk but because the writes dont cover the exact location that the previous data was stored (due to vibrations with the write heads and other variables), there is small amounts that get left on the top or bottoms of the currant data. Thats why if you have real (and I mean REAL BIG) security issues with your hard drive data the best thing to do is write the 0's, 1's and random data then use some sort of chemical to strip the hard drive disks, scratch the heck out of it, drill some holes, and then grind it into dust should do the trick but that would make the hard drive usless and is probably over kill. I find the computer forensics a neat topic and there is/was a forum on this topic here at AO (for those of you who are interested)Quote:
Originally posted here by AciDriveHB
If people were smart though they would use a utility that would zero the drive, and then write junk data on the disk, then format it again. I have a utility that does that (along with 25 passes, etc). Data can't be recovered if there is other data written over that file on the drive.
LC4 (l0pht crack) requires admin writes to get the passwords from the box, but there are ways around that... but that requires more know how that I wish I had...
an NTpassword changing boot disk should work providing it is a windows machine...
To me that sounds like all you need to get ride of the data, screw the rest of that crap :D Nice one though...Quote:
Originally posted here by DivineRogue
Thats why if you have real (and I mean REAL BIG) security issues with your hard drive data the best thing to do is write the 0's, 1's and random data then use some sort of chemical to strip the hard drive disks, scratch the heck out of it, drill some holes, and then grind it into dust should do the trick but that would make the hard drive usless and is probably over kill.
Looking back into my software, mine does zero first pass, one the second pass, and then you have the option of doing that over 25 times. Which my friend and I decided to do, and well lets say it didnt make it past 2% after waiting about 4 hours. So I'm not sure what all the passes include.
Just a thought...
~AciD
XP admin password work around. download this application and burn it to a cd. then boot off of the cd. follow the instructions, generally take the defaults.
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd
** note i advocate servers being behind locked doors, thus limiting access to admins only. where such applications as linked below can not be used in a destructive manner.
happy computing -
jag
i got another idea try doing a system restor to befor the password was set