Password Recovery — pwrecover.com

Cool, free utility for resetting a password

I ran accross this utility when trying to log in to a machine I had got off Craigslist. I didn’t care what the old password was, but I didn’t have the XP installation disks so I needed to get it. This site pointed me to a utility that enabled you to boot off a CD and reset the password of any user to whatever you wanted. I found that just setting it to * (which makes there not be a password) was the most reliable.

Caution: If used on users that have EFS encrypted files, and the system is XP or later service packs on W2K, all encrypted files for that user will be UNREADABLE! and cannot be recovered unless you remember the old password again!

Download links:

• cd060213.zip (~3MB) - Bootable CD image with newer drivers

• bd050303.zip (~1.1MB) - Bootdisk image, date 050303.

• sc050303.zip(~1.4MB) - SCSI-drivers (050303) (only use newest drivers with newest bootdisk, this one works with bd050303)

To write these images to a floppy disk you’ll need RawWrite2 which is included in the Bootdisk image download. To create the CD you just need to use your favorite CD burning program and burn the .ISO file to CD.