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Unusual Password Situation Assistance Needed
I have a customer with six Dell Optiplex 745 PCs. All the admin passwords were reset and I don't know them.
The problem is the machine is not a Windows 7 machine from the Dell website so no drivers for boot images. I have tried a few. The Linux ones do work.
So what I tried.
1. Ophcrack: Got a few of the machines. I then got all the tables you can get and verified they were running but cannot guess the passwords of the rest of the PCs. The pay libraries are $1k so that is out of the question.
2. Hiren's bood CD. Won't work as no driver for the controller.
3. Asunsoft Password recovery (trial but would pay the $20) could not see controller.
So here is my question: If I install the HD as a second drive in a working Win7 PC, can I edit the registry on the second drive and remove the admin password as I have seen in the Linux rescue images. I would rather work in a Win envion as opposed to Linux doing registry editing