well anywayz here is my problem....

I'm trying to crack the SAM file on my own computer. The sam file in %SYSTEMROOT%\repair seems to be garbage. I RUN lophtcrack and I put the right password in the text file, so it should crack it, however it doesn't. I really don't understand this. So today I used NTFSPRO to access SAM during bootup. So I take sam out of C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\ and copy it to A:\. I then run lophtcrack again on my new SAM file, and the file is the same, garbage. It can't be cracked even though I put the correct password in the txt. I thought it might be syskey encrypted though I never choose a pass phrase or whatever.

Did I use NTFSPRO wrong?

Hey thanks again fellas