windows 8 password reset

[compnet]

Banging my head on this one.. All my normal pw reset tools(offline nt, ophcrack, etc) can't see the hard drive, or the windows hive on the hard drive.. This is a hp envy m6, and I have to change boot options to legacy which disable secure boot to get it to boot off of any cd or dvd, and I think this is preventing me from accessing the hard drive..

Also, it appears to be a local user, not on a MS account, so can't do email reset through MS.

Anyone do any windows 8 password resets yet?

 

[DCGPX]

Have your tried the DART8?

 

[PBComputer]

Not yet but this was on the plans for tomorrow to discover a way. At the moment I'm thinking trying to build a msdart disk if possible.

 

[rjframe]

This is what Google gave me. I've never heard of them before though. Maybe download the demo to a VM, clone the client's machine, then try it?

http://www.windowspasswordkiller.com/forgot-windows-8-password.html

 

[DCGPX]

You need to load onto Win8, it refused to load up on my Win7 which was to be expected. Must admit I havent tried the locksmith yet. Might try it on a VM and see.

 

[compnet]

This is what Google gave me. I've never heard of them before though. Maybe download the demo to a VM, clone the client's machine, then try it?

http://www.windowspasswordkiller.com/forgot-windows-8-password.html

Lot of work for a pw reset, not making huge money off of it, and don't want to try a random google result.

We let technet expire because we weren't using it, still have the action pack, is DART part of the action pack?

 

[altrenda]

Don't know if this works for you but something to try
The utilman trickfrom Bryces post here
http://www.technibble.com/bypass-windows-logons-utilman/


UPDATE: just tried it on my Win 8 machine, booting with a WIN 8 Pro disk . SUCCESS!

 

[compnet]

Don't know if this works for you but something to try
The utilman trickfrom Bryces post here
http://www.technibble.com/bypass-windows-logons-utilman/


UPDATE: just tried it on my Win 8 machine, booting with a WIN 8 Pro disk . SUCCESS!

Thanks, that's what we ended up doing

 

[Rob_NNCC]

Also, OPHcrack works on WIN8

 

[altrenda]

Also, OPHcrack works on WIN8

I thought so too, but the OP said he tried it and several others.

 

[Martyn]

I know it's a bit late but Konboot?

 

[Rob_NNCC]

I thought so too, but the OP said he tried it and several others.

That's strange. Perhaps a driver issue. One the first things I tried with WIN8 Beta was bootable tools like OPH. I KNOW OPH worked on my PC, and I have used it once on a cust's pc running 8.

 

[DCGPX]

Just out of curiosity for those who've successfully changed passwords - Has anyone done so on PCs setup up to sign on with email rather a local account?

Just realised those I've done have all been local, never tried an email one. Not sure how to switch to a local logon if they've forgotten their email password.

 

[JustInspired]

Konboot says it works on Windows 8 but not on a UEFI bios.

OPHCrack should still work but you may need to change AHCI to IDE. Also, OPHCrack may not be able to find anything other than really basic passwords unless you have the paid version of the (much larger) rainbow tables and lots of time.

 

[Rob_NNCC]

For OPHCrack, I google the hash. I have not run into a case where google does not have it. It is a pain to type it out again though... Also, I have tested to make sure that OPHcrack will read email (non local accounts) accounts and find the password, not just to windows, but also to the windows Live account.

 

[MobileTechie]

Konboot says it works on Windows 8 but not on a UEFI bios.

OPHCrack should still work but you may need to change AHCI to IDE. Also, OPHCrack may not be able to find anything other than really basic passwords unless you have the paid version of the (much larger) rainbow tables and lots of time.

Does ophcrack read GPT partitions then?

 

[JustInspired]

i think you could try a excel password recovery software, like Pwdspy Windows Password Recovery, it is quite easy and convenient to use, and also supports Windows 8/7/Vista/XP/2000 and Server 2000/2003/2008.

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