Windows xp remove sam file

Once you find it delete it. Once you find the backed-up SAM file the file will also include numbers that specify the date of creation. What is a SAM File? In my example, you can clearly see that John the Ripper has cracked the password within matter of seconds.

But its lack of a GUI interface makes a bit more challenging to use. Tags: crack windows 10 password crack windows password extract hashes from sam file how to use john the ripper. Search for:. Anyway, a family computer of mine not mine, my family's [thank god] crashed. It happened randomly overnight, we have no idea how it happened since no one was even home, the comptuer was on though, but it has tons of firewalls and stuff like that.

Now all I am getting when I turn it on is an error code, a "Windows Stop error code" I guess you could call it. I have looked up the code and basically it means that I'm fucked sorry for profanity.

My dad insisted I call Dell since we have a dell, I said it was useless, he didn't listen, so I called. They said exactly what I suspected and had already read on the internet and that the harddrive and installation of windows was basically shot. They advised reinstalling Windows, or getting a new harddrive. I do not want to have to reinstall windows if there is a way around it because I lose everything, and thats what my dad and I exactly don't want to happen, thats why I called dell, maybe they had a way around it, they don't without like mailing them my harddrive.

Now, through my research I have also narrowed down that the file that is corrupt, since its a logon error, is the SAM file. I got onto the harddrive and accessed it using Knoppix which I have used a lot in the past in similar situations, and if you don't know what it is, take a minute and look it up, very useful and go figure the last moment the SAM file was editted was July 15th, at am.

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