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To: Wuli
"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."

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

93 posted on 03/11/2026 4:14:28 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Paal Gulli

We techies swear by Hirens Boot CD. I keep it on a USB thumbdrive when I travel.


95 posted on 03/11/2026 4:18:57 PM PDT by Gideon7
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