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How to recover the password
Authored by: hamarkus on Jun 06, '06 03:23:55PM

Using the diskutil attach this worked great, going down from 7.4 to 5.1 GB (actually the first tip that for me ever).

However, I had to log out of Windows for this and now I cannot remember my Windows password... (its not networked and the password therefore is just a few digits, so I could simply try it out).

Is there a way to retrieve the password from the image?



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How to recover the password
Authored by: wordsofwisedumb on Jun 06, '06 06:03:51PM

If it is Windows XP, the password is stored in a file with the extension .sam. There are utilities to read .sam files which run on linux you should be able to boot the virtual computer on a live linux CD and recover the password that way. DO NOT modify the .sam file, one of my past roommates did that on a real PC and ended up reformatting. I can't remember where the .sam file is stored exactly but a quick Google search should tell you.



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How to recover the password
Authored by: superg on Jun 07, '06 08:45:28AM

yeah, check out http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net



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