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Password unknown and no disk to restore

By heidihall410 on Oct 11, 2008

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I have an F700 Laptop that I have no disk for and I can't reset the password because the current master password is unknown. Can I reset this without knowing the master password???

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Oct 15, 2008

- The system is Windows Vista, It is the windows user password for the main account. I am able to log on under aguest user however, I cannot do much. I do have a system I can burn CD's from. Thanks for all your help

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Clarification Request

Posted by PC REPAIR on Oct 12, 2008

By " master password" do you mean the power on Bios password or the Windows Account password?

Posted by jjcf89 on Oct 12, 2008

What operating system are you using? This is quite possible for a windows xp machine. Not sure about vista. Do you have a computer that you can burn a cd from?

Solution #1

posted on Oct 21, 2008

jjcf89

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Ok in order to reset the password you are going to have to download and burn a ultimate boot cd. The iso can be found here: http://pharry.eu/data/ubcd411.iso.php. The official site is here: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com.

Once you have it burned to a cd insert it into the laptop.
Start the laptop. Most likely you will have to tell the computer to boot from the cd. You can tell this if the laptop boots directly into windows otherwise it should prompt you for a brief pause with a "press enter to boot into the ubcd".
If you need to set your laptop to boot a cd then when it first turns on you will have to enter the bios. Here is a tutorial to changing your boot order. The tutorial is for using wipeDisk but instead we will be booting the ubcd. : http://www.whitecanyon.com/how-to-change-boot-order.php
Ok so your boot order is all set and you see a prompt to boot to the ubcd. Press enter and you should be at a Blue screen that says Ultimate Boot CD at the top.
In the menu arrow to Filesystem tools and hit enter.
Goto NTFS tools then Offline NT Password and Registry Editor
It will start the editor and a bunch of text will scroll by.
When it stops it will ask you to select a partition by number. Hopefully if all went well it was able to find your hard drive and your windows partition will be there. Select the partition that holds windows. Most likely number 1.
Accept the default to the next prompt. Should be something about path to registry
Select option 1 for password reset
Select option 1 for edit user data and passwords
Now hopefully your user account will be displayed. Type in your user account as shown and press enter
Blank your password by entering an *. Don't try to set it to something else from here.
Then do ! to quit
Then q to quit and save
Make sure to enter y to save.
Select n to not try again
Now eject cd and reboot to windows. And see if your account password is blank.

I hope this helps.
This has been tested on a windows xp machine. Though it should.

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Solution #2

posted on Oct 12, 2008

pinballer2

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The problem-- wait. Can you boot into Windows or whatever operating system you have? If you can't, that's a serious problem. Because if you forgot your BIOS password...you're screwed.

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