Forgotten Password

MonicaBing

Hi guys, i bought my mum an msi wind UI35DX for Christmas and someone else set it up for me, all grand except they forgotten the password to get into the system, i have tried every permeation of the password and no flipping luck, is there any way that i can fix this before Christmas Day? Any help is appreciated...

cookie1977

Use this:

http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/

homer911

or this...

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/14369/change-or-reset-windows-password-from-a-ubuntu-live-cd/

MonicaBing

Guys thank you both for the replies, but i cant understand half the jargon on those pages never mind know where to get a flash drive/cd thingy! Im guessing there's no easy way out of this!

cookie1977

No answer we can give on here due to the rules I'm afraid.

Have a read through both links. There's plenty of FAQ's etc you might find it easier then you think.

mp22

Trinity rescue kit

Yakuza

If it's a fresh PC, why not re-install the operating system.

Having googled your machine name, as it's a netbook with no built in CD drive I'm hoping there might be a recovery partition (a section of the hard disk dedicated to repairing / reinstalling Windows) on it somewhere. Usually pressing F8 after turning on the PC will allow you to choose what partition you can boot from.

I bought a VAIO netbook for the missus a few years ago, I had to then buy an external DVD burner to create the recovery disks with (from within Windows). If that's the case, you might be goosed, unless you can borrow an external USB DVD reader and a copy of Windows on DVD (the licence key should be on a sticker either on the machine itself or in one of the manuals that came with it).

ronkmonster

Start in safe mode and try login with the administrator account. Often it's left with a blank password. Once you're in, you can reset the normal accounts password

Fysh

MonicaBing wrote: »

Guys thank you both for the replies, but i cant understand half the jargon on those pages never mind know where to get a flash drive/cd thingy! Im guessing there's no easy way out of this!

If you have a USB stick you can do this. I would suggest going to the Fedora website and downloading the [url=]LiveUSB utility[/url]. Then download the file listed as "cd110511.zip" on the NTPasswd download page. Use the LiveUSB tool to turn your USB stick into a bootable device (instructions for doing so are here - it's pretty straightforward). Once you've done that, plug in your USB stick and start/reboot the machine. Hit F11 to get the boot menu, and select your USB device. From here on in, you just need to follow the NTpasswd instructions.