Re: can't log on - forgot password oops

["Jimmy Wu"]

On 8/19/07, NoOp <glgxg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 08/19/2007 01:13 PM, Jimmy Wu wrote:
> Does chntpw work on laptops?  I have a WinXPPro laptop that I changed the
> password to a while ago, but I've forgotten it because I usu. leave it on,
> and haven't let it shutdown in a while.  I tried chntpw, but it didn't seem
> to work.  This is my company-issued laptop, and it would be really bad if I
> got locked out and couldn't use it.
>
> Hope someone can help.
> Thanks
>
> Jimmy
>
>

I think I figured out what was wrong:
I was using a Ubuntu Live CD - working fine (but then again, laptop is relatively new).  I would cd to the Windows system32/config dir, and do `chntpw -u 'Jimmy Wu' SAM`, type * to blank, and it would seem to work normally, but doing a chntpw -l right afterwards showed no change in the password (ie still not blank). 
Then I remembered from my experience working with an NTFS HD on my home Ubuntu machine, that I had to install ntfs-3g or something like that before Ubuntu could write to NTFS (otherwise, it's read-only, I guess).  So I installed that, along with ntfs-config, told it to enable write access to the XP hard-drive, and tried chntpw again, and this time it worked. 

Thanks for the really detailed instructions, though unfortunately I didn't check my mail until after I had done the above.

Jimmy

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