Comments on: How To Reset Your Windows Password When You Have Forgotten It

By: zukram

zukram — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:27:46 +0000

Lance.. if this is not working for you.. you try to download hirens v.10 there is a password remover there that is easy to use..(active password remover)

Good luck..

By: Lance

Lance — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:50:53 +0000

First off the program does work. But when I get to step 7 instead of "type y and Enter to acknowledge that you want to change the password" coming up it goes to the next step and asks for the ! to quit.

Please help.
PS: up to this step everything is done the same as the directions say.

By: Antony

Antony — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:31:48 +0000

Hello everyone. My concern is if this tool works for a server 2008 when this server is the domain controller. Thanks for your support.

By: Marth McGregor

Marth McGregor — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:48:19 +0000

I cannot access the account. I am looking this up on a public computer, but my actual computer has a password and I cannot log in… can someone tell me an easy override for this?

By: J Blai

J Blai — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:40:44 +0000

This worked AWESOME on my Windows 7 machine this morning (3:39AM). My daughter messed with the computer earlier & the password was screwed up. I was pulling my hair out until I came along this website. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

By: Nigel

Nigel — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:14:32 +0000

Strange that Bubba got through on a Server 2008 O/S. I have used this tool in one of our off-site locations and was able to reset all our local admin passwords. Yet when I tried it on a server 2008 machine, it won't work. My manager seems to think that it doesn't have the drivers to load a SATA disk drive… any ideas ??

By: Ms Thompson

Ms Thompson — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:25:37 +0000

Thank You
I tried two other websites and this one worked. Thanks to farouk
Hello,
Because Sam registry is not mounted so
This is the solution for "SAM registry file (which contains user data) is not loaded!" :
In step two choose partion 2 that's it !!
If you look partition after step one you can see :
dev/sda1 1 13334 …
dev/sda2 12255 125458 … BOOT
dev/sda3 151547 5632144 …
So you must write 2 at step two, because boot sector is on sda2

By: Giovanni

Giovanni — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:38:37 +0000

I have windows 7 and windows vista and I'm getting stuck on the step that asks for the path to the registry directory. I've tried to enter windows/system32/config and it did not work. Is the path on Vista and Windows 7 different from the other versions of Windows?

By: tanpopo

tanpopo — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:04:56 +0000

here is the methods I know.

The first thing which you check if you forget login password. When we install Windows, it automatically creates an account "Administrator" and sets its password to blank. So if you have forget Your user account password then try this:
Start system and when you See Windows Welcome screen / Login screen, press ctrl+alt+del keys Twice and it'll show Classic Login box. Now type "Administrator" (without quotes) in Username and leave Password field blank. Now press Enter and you should be able to log in Windows.
Now you can reset your account password from "Control Panel -> User Accounts".
Same thing can be done using Safe Mode. In Safe Mode Windows will show this in-built Administrator account in Login screen.

Windows XP and further versions also provide another method to recover forgotten Password by using "Reset Disk". If you created a Password Reset Disk in Past, you can use that disk to reset the password. To know more about It, please visit http://www.resetwindowspassword.com/

By: Suhas

Suhas — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:51:33 +0000

Hi,

I am seeing the same error as Katie,

ERROR: SAM registry file (which contains user data) is not loaded!

Till stage 5 everything works as shown on this page

Help please!

By: katie

katie — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:53:37 +0000

i am having the same problem as Chaz on 19 january 2008
i cant go further than stage 5.

when answering What to do? i enter number 1 – edit user data and passwords

but i get ERROR: SAM registry file (which contains user data) is not loaded!

how do i overcome this?

By: farouk

farouk — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:53:13 +0000

Hello,
Because Sam registry is not mounted so
This is the solution for "SAM registry file (which contains user data) is not loaded!" :
In step two choose partion 2 that's it !!
If you look partition after step one you can see :
dev/sda1 1 13334 …
dev/sda2 12255 125458 … BOOT
dev/sda3 151547 5632144 …
So you must write 2 at step two, because boot sector is on sda2

By: LUKA

LUKA — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:43:15 +0000

man this stuff absoluuuuuuuuutly rocks thank you so much guys.

By: me

me — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:36:43 +0000

yea this too complicated and mine dosent show any of this plz help help

By: Moose

Moose — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:46:45 +0000

Awesome! Thanks heaps