hack password on laptops ?
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| 1 | Need to get pass words removed, on recycled Laptops at Recycle Center ,we have permission to repurpose used,,old ,,disposed of laptops, naturally we will wipe all info ...What is a quick easy way to remove laptop passwords ,using either USB or CD disc ,only one of of the staff working there are IT savy, so we need something quick and easy to use,,,its a pity to dump dismantle scrap,perfectly good ,,abet old Win 7 ,,Vista ,,Professional laptops,some win 10 coming in too,,, just when we could with owners permission ,,,,,put them back ,ie out of the Dismantle BIN ,back into the community...is there a program we can use that's free to down load, or not too expensive for a Charity Trust ,thanks Kev kevlight - 2021-11-10 16:45:00 |
| 2 | Do you want to wipe passwords only and leave the device useable or wipe the hard drive entirely? nice_lady - 2021-11-10 17:43:00 |
| 3 | Are you wiping the bios password or the Windows passwords? mr-word - 2021-11-11 15:07:00 |
| 4 | Used to have a boot cd which wiped passwords back a few years ago. It was very quick to use and simple unfortunately I can't recall what or where it was/is anymore. Hmmmm...... nice_lady - 2021-11-11 15:28:00 |
| 5 | It is called Offline NT Password & Registry editor. https://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/ mr-word - 2021-11-11 17:17:00 |
| 6 | mr-word wrote:
nah I actually had a couple and that wasn't either of them nice_lady - 2021-11-11 17:48:00 |
| 7 | nice_lady wrote:
Elcomsoft is the one I use. Never fails. Can also work from a flash drive. Edited by namtak at 7:59 pm, Thu 11 Nov namtak - 2021-11-11 19:58:00 |
| 8 | Dammit it's just too long since I had to use one of these programs. I had two. One was one I had on cd and it was very very quick, last time I recall using it was probably 10 years ago or more for a family of a deceased client I'd had. She had died suddenly and they wanted to access the computer data etc. I also had another one which I have set my brain on search mode to find, (It will sometime), it was a GUI running off usb key and it was good also. Hmmm.... nice_lady - 2021-11-11 20:24:00 |
| 9 | Lazesoft Recovery Suite Edited by nice_lady at 8:34 pm, Thu 11 Nov nice_lady - 2021-11-11 20:26:00 |
| 10 | nice_lady wrote: that's my usual goto... king1 - 2021-11-11 20:35:00 |
| 11 | king1 wrote:
I can't remember using it on Win10 - it works on 7 ..... nice_lady - 2021-11-11 21:12:00 |
| 12 | kevlight wrote:
The newer ones if set up properly and are the right hardware, you can't. The older they are the better your odds. Some will require opening and shorting a jumper but some won't even let you do that. Case by case. There are two sorts of passwords here, Bios passwords as I describe above and windows passwords which the other posts and mentioned software tools apply to. ronaldo8 - 2021-11-11 22:51:00 |
| 13 | AH ha ,tried the Lazesoft Recovery suite ...it looked good but...it will not load to my Formatted USB stick...comes up with error message ...Failed to create WINPE file ....? any suggestions thanks Kev Edited by kevlight at 7:36 am, Fri 12 Nov kevlight - 2021-11-12 07:31:00 |
| 14 | kevlight wrote: got enough free space everywhere, including the c: drive - it might build the pe file on your pc first then move it to the usb otherwise try again king1 - 2021-11-12 08:44:00 |
| 15 | kevlight wrote: There's a bit of special formatting required on the USB stick first, because it needs to be FAT32 and the Windows image is larger than the 4GB-1 limitation of FAT32. Follow this Microsoft guide: gyrogearloose - 2021-11-12 08:52:00 |
| 16 | Yeah was thinking - 'what format' type did you kevlight ? nice_lady - 2021-11-12 09:58:00 |
| 17 | try a lovely little program called Yumi to create your usb key from the lazesoft iso. https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/ It's brilliant. nice_lady - 2021-11-12 10:01:00 |
| 18 | download isunshare on to empty CD or USB stick...Done. lefty1234 - 2021-11-12 11:39:00 |
