Help me get laid.

An old co-worker got a laptop off of ebay fairly cheap.  First thing she did was change the password for the prompt on Windows.  I'm not talking about the admin password in the BIOS.  This is the password you enter after boot-up and when you go to wake it up after it goes into hibernation mode or when the screen saver kicks in.  It's a Windows OS password request.

Anyway, she swears up and down on a stack of bibles that she is entering the correct password.  She used the laptop a total of three times before it stopped accepting her password.  Now she can't get past the screen no matter how many variations she enters.

I think she thinks she remembers the password, but forgot and is entering the wrong password.

So, does anyone know how to recover the password?   I don't want to spend $$$ for a program that will do it so if anyone has any suggestions on doing it on the cheap, it would be much appreciated.

This chick is hot and I would not mind showing her my hard drive.  Fixing her computer would go a long way toward that goal because she dumped all her pictures into the laptop from her camera, then deleted them off the camera without making a backup CD of them.  The mom is a marathoner and is hotter than she is.

I have not tried to get at the pics by accessing the HD as an additional HD on a machine running Windows.  I don't have a cable to convert the tiny HD connector to an SATA or UDMA or whatever plug I have on the ATX board I have in one of my machines.  And she really really needs the laptop to work.

So yeah, any help on the password issue would equal sex for me.  I'll even let you smell my fingers afterward. And no, I don't think she has a penis.

or when u have time, you can make your own live windows pe cd

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theres one program in particular which are in the plugin database will reset the passwordto whatever you wnat it


http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=7137

need pics of coworker

Depends on OS too. The older ones, you could just go into DOS and delete the *.pwl file.

Newer windows = more pain in the ass, and not sure about vista since I dont have it.

 

 

 

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the ophcrack one is the best, ive used too many times too count, fully legal, just a live linux cd, does all the work for you as long as it can detect the hdd, not all sata, havent seen it not detect die

Well, I downloaded ophcrack and burned an iso to a CD.

It's a Dell Latitude C600.  Mobile Pentium III, 1 GHz, 256MB, 20GB HD with Windows 2000 Professional.  It has that funky BIOS by Phoenix Technologies Ltd.  It's a piece of crap.

I have a list of what the passwords might be, but it doesn't have what user name she chose.  Currently it's set to USER.   I'll bet she changed the user name too.  Entered all the variations I could think of, even with caps on. Did it again with various permutations of the user names she might use also.  Nothing.

So I went into the BIOS to set the first boot device to the CD reader in the swap bay.  I must have restarted about 20 times with the ophcrack live CD in the bay.  It wasn't picking it up and went to the HD every time. 

So I hit F12 to do a one-time boot off of the CD bay.  Nothing.

I went in with a Puppy Linux Live CD instead, repeated everything, then went in with a Windows recovery disc and repeated the process.  Nothing.

I went back and disabled everything but the CD bay.  It yelled at me with a loud beep that there was no boot device present.  Hmm.  It doesn't recognize the CD bay.  Pulled it out, blew on the connectors, put it back in.  Nada. 

So it isn't reading the CD drive and it won't boot off of a USB device - not an option in Phoenix BIOS.  She neglected to tell me this important piece of information.

in a last ditch effort, I went in with several flavors of Safe Mode, but it still wanted a password.

Since the rig does not recognize the CD drive, I have no way to boot with a live CD and that rules out any live CD. 

Will sleep on it and try again tomorrow, but without a recognizable CD drive, I don't see how this is going to workout in anything but massive fail.  Absent dropping in another HD and new OS, she should just get another laptop.

Just boot from the Windows CD and reinstall it.

If she has stuff on the drive, first copy the drive to another source (another drive, DVD, whatever). You just have to make that drive the secondary or slave drive.

 

Yeah, I'm going to have to pull the HD.  Don't have 2.5 to 3.5 adapter, at least I don't think I do.  And I certainly don't have a HD enclosure. 

I called to let her know that she's going to have to get these things, because I ain't paying for them, but she was not there today.  So this will have to wait until tomorrow.

And the problem is not which Live CD I should use.  It won't read any CD at the moment despite my disabling all boot devices except for the CD drive and also doing a one-time selection with the CD drive in addition to the above.

So, I'll have to wait on the sexual relations until she gets me a cable or a HD enclosure.