[GeoStL] Re: NGR - passwords on Windows7
- From: Jonathan Mertz <jemertz@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 22:54:37 -0500
Mike raises a good point. If all you're concerned about is the data, you
can put the drive in another computer to copy the files off, and then
either wipe the drive (for resale) or rebuild it from the factory image
(for re-use.) You'll probably lose all his settings, but that's not what's
important anyway. There are other options for that such as Norton Ghost (I
think it's Symantec Ghost now, since they bought Norton) which will let you
create an image of the drive, which can reside as a file on another
computer, and lets you browse through it to copy files out or view them
(It's similar in usage to a .zip, except that you can't edit the original
ghost image.)
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Mike Lusicic <lusicic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> -
> I am familiar with what Jon described here, but as he says, I don't know
> if they have a version for Win 7.
>
> If you are don't care about the data, you can usually rebuild the machine
> to original factory configuration.
>
> There was also a utility that allowed you to build a CD to boot in the PE
> (Pre-Install Environment) and from there if you wanted to just take the
> data off the hard drive before rebuilding, you can do that. Usually to a
> USB drive. I don't think it will recognize a Win 7 formatted disk, but they
> may have updated that feature to support Win 7 at some point as well.
>
> Sometimes the PE will not allow that because you don't have the right
> drivers on the CD. In that case you can get an external USB case that you
> can put a 2.5 inch laptop hard drive in and connect it to another computer
> and access the drive as long as it is not encrypted. Win 7 has something
> that will allow you to do that. I think it is called BitLocker if I
> remember correctly. If that is the case, you are not going to be able to
> get at the data no matter what you do.... unless you work for some
> government agency.
>
>
>
> On 5/9/2012 10:06 PM, Jonathan Mertz wrote:
>
>> I know there are Linux utilities that let you boot into them from CD,
>> load the Windows XP registry on the hard drive, and change an account
>> password. (You can't retrieve it as it's encrypted, but you can change it.)
>> I don't know if there is a version that works with 7, but it's certainly
>> worth a look.
>>
>> -Jon
>>
>> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Mr. EX-President <
>> mogamoga2010@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:mogamoga2010@hotmail.**com<mogamoga2010@xxxxxxxxxxx>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Laurie's brother passed away over a month ago and we have his Acer
>> laptop. The problem is, he has his login password protected. I
>> checked the BIOS and the password option is turned off. If we
>> cannot reset or figure out his password, we cannot get into system
>> admin. Anyone out there have any ideas?
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>
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