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Cracking Windows passwords with Linux

Posted by SamShazaam on · 2 comments
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If you lose a Windows password, or you buy a system that has an OS on it, but you don't know the password, what are you to do? The best thing to do would be to throw in a Linux CD, format the drive, and install the Distro. But, what if you want to boot to the system and see what's on there, and get data off?

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Comments (2)

jezuch ·
This is very useful indeed, but the motivation given is not enough:

Quoting:But, what if you want to boot to the system and see what's on there, and get data off?


I've been using ntfs-3g FUSE driver for many months without any problems, *including* write access. I can imagine needing to log into Windows only if the partition uses some as of yet unsupported features, like encryption (or compression?).

I thought I'd mention that, as a happy user :)
hkwint ·
Of course you can use Linux, but this review may be more aimed at people who don't know how to use Linux to copy over their files; and therefore the writer only uses Linux for resetting the password.

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