A friend of mine recently used Ubuntu installed on a 128GB USB flash drive to hack into an old Laptop running windows 10 with a sign on password only my deceased brother knew.
Probably not quite a hack. Linux can simply see Window’s full file system. I can see every file in my Windows 7 installation on this dual boot system.
Log into windows and I can only see windows aka C: drive. I’ve also opened password protected PDF files that were created in windows. Linux simply ignored the password protection.
Hiren’s Boot CD (now usb) has been a repair utility disc for Window’s for decades. It runs a bootable version of Linux with various hard drive and hardware tools to figure out that Blue Screen of Death.
I once went to a Microsoft Bootcamp school in a 3rd-world country (don't ask, it seemed like a good idea at the time). It was a "Gold Star" MS facility but they were running their training "labs" on bootleg Win2K servers, which they had lost the log-in passwords to. I was travelling with a copy of a 'hacker's' CD known as Hiren's Boot CD (what kind of geek would I be if I didn't?), which I booted their servers off, accessed the HDD like NTFS had no protection whatsoever, and blanked out the administrator's PW so next time it was booted, it would ask the user to input one.
They made me a god (unofficially, of course).
https://www.hirensbootcd.org/howtos/#collapse-1-208