Long story short. A Marine is killed, his mom got his belongings back and wants to get into his Laptop with Vista Home edition.
I had a guy try here at work and he was unsuccessful. Any ideas ?
Download the Vista Live cd from here.
Try booting in Safe Mode and logging into the Administrator account. A lot of the time people never put a password on it. Then she can take the password off his user account.
First thing we tried.
Try ophcrack if that doesn’t work I have a few ideas.
is there a way you could change the boot to read CDrom first and try to install 98 or will that trash all files?
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well would it trash the files?? really I dont know
WTF?:picard:
You can download Emergency Boot CD which unlocks passwords on NT based systems. Its worth a shot but I think Vista uses a different kernel so you are SOL there as far as I know unless you find one that works with vista.
Last ditch effort is use a linux live cd and copy the files you need somewhere and reinstal.
Yes, they would be trashed.
thanks
in addition to that, why 98 and not xp (or me or 95)
fuck i just threw it out there … why not windows 7 … it was the idea of running a new OS
Does she want the files or does she want to view his desktop, etc.?
If she just wants his files, then a $20 USB cable, connect the hard drive, and plug in to existing computer and grab all files she wants.
x2, add a external enclosure in there.