Get into a Windows laptop without the password
I recently forgot a password for my Windows Hard Drive and had to reset it. A friend showed me a cool way to change the password for my hard drive. Simply, the steps are as follows:
- Plug drive into another host via SATA/write blocker cable
- Decrypt drive as needed
- Run PowerShell as an Admin
- take ownership of utilman.exe and cmd.exe in System32
- change file permissions on those ‘exe’s as needed
- rename utilman.exe to utilman1.exe
- rename cmd.exe to utilman.exe
- Plug Hard Drive into hardware and boot
- Press ‘win’ + ‘u’ and a command prompt will appear
net user USER PASS
to reset password- log in and fix executable names to original!