Help please ! NEWBIE to vmware ... lost Windows 7 passoword Help !!

[dibdobbs]

Hi,

I have a macbook Pro running VMware Fusion 3 and windows 7.

This was set up for me by the Apple Reseller.

Unfortunately, I have forgotten my password for logging into Windows 7 and there is no administrator password set up.

There appears to be some freeware tools that work on Windows machines to recover or replace passwords using a bootable disk, but this does not work on a Mac.

Can anyone please assist?

Is there a solution without having to reinstall windows. We have tried to rebuild, but it came up saying it was not compatible.

If I do have to re-install windows, is there an easy way of doing this, and can someone give me instructions, as I am not very technical … thank you in advance !! ☺

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Moved to the VMware Fusion forum.

However, you really have only 3 solutions:

1) use one of the 'floppy' or 'cdrom' disk based password cracking tools. You can add a 'floppy' device to your VM pretty easily. You may actually have to convert the floppy image on the net to one you can use within Fusion.

2) repair your windows 7 system (may ask for password still)

3) reinstall

This is mainly a windows issue more than a VMware Fusion issue, but hopefully someone from the Fusion community can help more.

Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky VMware Communities User Moderator, VMware vExpert 2009

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[WoodyZ]

You can use the Offline NT Password & Registry Editor to reset the password.

• cd080802.zip (~3MB) - Bootable CD image. (md5sum: 33ecd38263f935b82e7b2e3e9f5de563)

[continuum]

Konboot is nice.

It can be used against Linux AND Windows - really amazing tool.

It does not reset anything - it just logs you on without asking. Then you can change password easily.

site:

http://www.darknet.org.uk/2009/06/kon-boot-reset-windows-linux-passwords/

iso-file:

http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/data/CD-konboot-v1.1-2in1.zip

I tried it myself and had no issues to log in on Windows 2003, XP and Ubuntu.

Make snapshot before using such tools !




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