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The bad thing is you forgot your windows password. And the worse thing is you didn't have a CD drive for some reason. But the good news is that there are still some programs that can help you! Before using windows password recovery softwares, you should know the following basic things of windows password key 8.0
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How To Recover Windows Password With Usb Flash Drive
If You Don’t Have Cd Drive?
The bad thing is you forgot your windows password. And the worse thing is you didn’t have a CD drive for some reason. But the good news is that there are still some programs that can help you!Before using windows password recovery softwares, you should know the following basic things of windows password key 8.0
1. Password Hash:
When you type in password in Windows XP, NT, 2000 login windows, windows operating system converts (encrypts) these passwords in something like this:7524248b4d2c9a9eadd3b435c51404ee
This is called password hash and this encryption is done using high level encryption schemes.
2. SAM Files:
In windows Operating system, these password hashes of every user account are stored in SAM Files. When user types in password on login screen, windows compares this SAM file contents with typed password and allows access (if matched). So, it is necessary to get these SAM files, if you want to recover your password.
3. Problems with SAM Files:
There are two problems with recovering passwords from SAM files:
This SAM File is locked during active windows session and hence cannot be accessed without booting. Thus, you have to boot system from another Operating System (NTFSDOS or Linux usually) and then copy SAM File to floppy drive or convenient external device like USB flash drive.
Even if you copy this SAM file, since the SAM File is in encrypted format, you can’t see passwords in plain text form and so you have to recover (actually crack) passwords. For this purpose, either Dictionary or Brute force attack is implemented. But it still take a very long time if you password have many characters. The most convenient windows password key 8.0 way is to use some programs
to change the corresponding position in SAM file. Then you can log in again with no password.Nowadays, most of windows password key tool is to boot up with CD. Fortunately, there are still a few windows password recovery tool support USB flash drive recovery.
Enjoy these windows password key tool!“windows password key 8.0 ”, http://www.lostwindowspassword.com
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Hope these tool I found can give you a hand to reset windows password with USB flash drive!
