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A friend of mine has accidentally lost her windows 8 password. I tried booting a live USB Hiren's & Windows windows unlocker enterprise (windows xp based live disks). The problem is that the normal mode is UEFI based (in BIOS) and it does not allow to boot Legacy OS (like xp). But when I enable "legacy mode", it disables the UEFI mode so Rescue CD's dont show the internal hard disk of laptop.

Any help ?

Gagan93
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What you could try, is boot into a Ubuntu Live OS and:

  1. Rename C:\windows\system32\Utilman.exe to C:\windows\system32\Utilman.exe.bak
  2. Rename C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe to C:\windows\system32\Utilman.exe
  3. Load back into windows, and click the 'Ease of access' button on the logon screen, and command promt should now open.
  4. Type: net user ###### * (replace hashes with the username)
  5. Give them a new password
Just Lucky Really
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You can perform the password reset using the Windows 8 installation media.

Here is an article explaining all the required steps to do so :

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows-8/a/reset-password-windows-8.htm

Hope this helps !

Ob1lan
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I have been using Trinity Rescue Kit quite successfully to reset Windows 8 local user password, bring local users into an administrator group, etc.

Just burn the ISO to a CD, enable Legacy Boot in BIOS, boot up the that CD and then go to "Windows Password Resetting" option.

ruslaniv
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