Download Kali Linux and burn the ISO to a CD/DVD. Boot Windows machine with the
LiveCD. On the boot menu of Kali Linux, select Live (forensic mode). Kali Linux
initialize and when it loads, it will open a terminal window and navigate to the
Windows password database file. Almost all versions of windows password is saved
in SAM file. This file is usually located under /Windows/System32/config. On your
system it may look something like this: /media/hda1/Windows/System32/config. Below
is the screenshot.
The SAM database is usually in the
/media/name_of_hard_drive/Windows/System32/config
The screen shot below lists the SAM database file on my hard drive. The screen
shot below lists the SAM database file on my hard drive.
/media/name_of_hard_drive/Windows/System32/config
The screen shot below lists the SAM database file on my hard drive. The screen
shot below lists the SAM database file on my hard drive.
Type command chntpw l SAM and it will list out all the usernames that are
contained on the Windows system.
The command gives us a list of usernames on the system. When we have the username
we want to modify and we simply run the command chntpw u “username” SAM
In the example below we typed: chntpw u “Administrator” SAM and we get the
following menu:
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