How to Recover/ Hack / Reset Windows NT/2000/XT/Vista Password Using Ubuntu Live CD

You can easily hack Windows Password with Ubuntu. You may need to reset an admin password in windows (NT/2000/XT/Vista) for many reasons, such as you have  forgotten it or you  need to repair and don't have access to the admin password. You can Easily Reset Windows password with Ubuntu.

Requirements

A little knowledge in Command Line , An Ubuntu Live CD. And a Wonderful package called chntpw.

Open a terminal

$ apt-get install chntpw

Chntpw is a program designed to overwrite Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista
SAM password.

Mount your Windows partition with read/write support


Then you need to locate (use your Command line Skills)  SAM file which for Windows 2000 and XP is normally located at windows/system32/config or winnt/system32/config.

Once inside the ‘config’ folder , issue this command:

$ sudo chntpw -h              for help 
$sudo chntpw -l SAM       for list of windows users

$sudo chntpw -u USERNAME  SAM    for reset password

it is recomended to reset the password to BLANK.