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Accessing Vista Files – No Access to Any Accounts.?

Posted on July 23, 2010 by admin| 2 Comments

A while back, I dropped my laptop from a pretty high distance and it pretty much killed most of the hardware. The hard drive however, somehow survived. Now, I would like to get my data off of my old hard drive, but I am having a bit of trouble…

My old laptop had a fingerprint scanner that I used 99.999% of the time, it became so convenient that I forgot the password to my Vista login. Because of that, there is no way for me to login or find any of my files.

Yes, I have tried the basics, OPHCrack couldn’t get my password, Windows NT/2k/XP/Vista Change Password / Registry Editor / Boot CD didn’t seem to do anything for me, it would tell me that it changed the password or deleted it yet when I restarted, nothing was changed.

Now I am out of ideas…think you can help?

—-Things That May Help You Help Me—-

1. The default “Administrator” account has no password set, I just don’t know how to login to this.
2. I don’t technically need access to Vista, if there is a way for me to grab my files using a live disk of Vista, I will do that, but I know next to nothing about Linux.

Help me out? Thanks.
Edit. I should have mentioned. I am using my hard drive by removing a hard drive from a friends and plugging mine in.

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Tagged access, Accessing, bit, distance, drive, files, Hard Drive, hardware, Laptop, trouble, vista

If I boot from a Linux live CD is it going to install over vista?

Posted on July 21, 2010 by admin| 3 Comments

I have downloaded Linux and going to burn it to CD when I boot from it will it install over Vista as I have never used Linux and just want to try it but I have heaps of programs that is still on Vista that I dont want to download again. Also is other programs like PC games, Mircosoft office still work fine on Linux as well as hardware such as Printers, joysticks etc. still going to work to, do they need drivers. Its Ubuntu 64 OS

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Tagged boot, dont, download, fine, hardware, heaps, Linux, Linux Live CDs, Mircosoft, office, pc games, printers, vista, work

Linux Sound Question? Crunchbang and Mint?

Posted on July 16, 2010 by admin| 3 Comments

I have a Dell XPS M1210. I dualboot XP and Linux Mint 6. Also, I have recently run a live CD for crunchbang. In XP and Crunchbang sound works well, and sounds great. In Mint, I get sound, but the sound is crackly. I know it isn’t the hardware, because it sounds great on 2 other OSes. Any Ideas?

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Tagged Crunchbang, dell xps, dualboot, hardware, Linux, Mint, OSes, question, sound

Hardware experts.. help?

Posted on July 5, 2010 by admin| 3 Comments

Actually, I have two questions:

1. My brother’s HDD died somehow (or at least that’s what the service guys told him). I managed to recover the data stored on it by booting from a Live CD and copying it to a Flash drive. When I tried to format the HDD from within Linux, the new partition table could not be written (I used disk). I connected the HDD to my own computer, and tried to delete the partitions using the disk management console (Win XP). It gave me something about some bad sectors, and the same: Operation could not be completed. Not to mention my computer boots extremely hard while having that HDD connected, and on some occasions it even has trouble identifying which drives is the master (my own is set on master, my brother’s is on slave). Is there any chance I could use that HDD? I mean, repair it or something (on my own, of course).

2. My computer has two DVD-RW drives on one IDE cable, and two HDDs on another IDE cable. Is there any chance I could connect a third IDE hard-drive? (Motherboard doesn’t support SATA).

I would gladly give 10 points for whoever finds me a viable solution. Thanks in advance.

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Tagged hardware, hardware experts