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Step By Step Reset Windows Password : Create USB Bootable Flash Disk

Posted on December 31, 2009, 9:44 am, by admin.

Last week I give my student a list of questions in the form of survey. What is the main problem they face when they use Windows. The result vary like :

Forgot windows password
Virus problem
Play multimedia
Read pdf file

Variation of their keywords they use are : xp password reset , reset windows xp , windows xp password , windows vista password, vista reset password , windows administrator password , reset administrator password, windows password unlocker, password recovery vista, windows 7 password, windows vista password, windows password recovery, reset password vista.

Huff. A lot of keyword

But I’m sure the destination is clear :

They want to enter their Windows Box and I’m going to explain step by step guide reset windows password for free.

Preparation

As title state, I’m going to use USB Flash Disk as media for hacking my windows box

Just joke.

Get USB Flash Disk in any size ( I use 64 MB USB Flash Disk) and format the disk with FAT32 file system.

Choose quick format and wait the process until complete.

Download ntpasswd

Download ntpasswd from http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/ or from here (in case main source is down)

Extract the iso

Use winrar or izarc for extract the content and copy to flash disk.

Make usb flash disk bootable

Next step to do is make usb flash disk bootable.

Click Start -> Run

Type cmd and hit Enter.

You should enter command promt session.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator> f:

F:\>dir /p/w
Volume in drive F is ALAM
Volume Serial Number is 9C31-BB4D

Directory of F:\

[boot.images] BOOT.CAT       BOOT.MSG       INITRD.CGZ     ISOLINUX.BIN
ISOLINUX.CFG   README.TXT     SCSI.CGZ       SYSLINUX.CFG   SYSLINUX.EXE
VMLINUZ
10 File(s)      3,335,607 bytes
1 Dir(s)      61,491,200 bytes free

F:\>SYSLINUX.EXE -ma f:

F:\>

Yes, summary of the command are :