Admin Password Access on Win 7 Enterprise (tad urgent :3)

[tlowr4]

So here's the story:

Got a system from my school that I've had for several months (basic rig, Athlon 64 X2, 1.5GB RAM, 80GB Drive etc) for use when my Mac wants to be a bit of a fart and throw all kinds of errors at me for certain school programs. It has two accounts on it. The admin account, who's name escapes me, has all privileges (obvs). I've had some harddrive issues and want to run the S.M.A.R.T system thingy in Speccy to check the drive. That's not the issue. What is, is the Admin account's password and username. Another account (with basic privileges), I can access since I know the password. But I can't for the life of me remember the Admin password, which is what I need to run Speccy.

So, I was wondering if there's any way through the Terminal or such to retrieve the password. I have a password cracking tool that I use on the trashpicked computers I get, everything from Win 3.1 up to Win 7. I will use that if all else fails, but I'd rather not...

I have permission to access all accounts, and despite the techie at school telling me the password a billion times over, that little scrap piece of paper I scribble it on just seems to disappear, grows legs I reckon.

Any and all help is appreciated. It's 8:30PM (which making the obvious, calling the techie, rather difficult) and I would like to have the system going by tomorrow morning. Beddybies time is around 11:00PM, so any ASAP answers are great, and deserve a beer once virtual bars are invented.

Cheers.

 

[bergauk]

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee460909.aspx

Make one of these.

 

[tlowr4]

Oh lovely duvley. Common sense tells me use the locksmith tool. Just one thing though, it's a 64-bit CPU, but 32-bit OS. I still use the x86 version presumably?

EDIT: Oh yeah, and I just burn the file like I do an .iso?

EDIT2: Scratch that, just found the how to guide down the bottom. Nice and simple, just how I like it.

 

[Grayfox]

http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/

 

[tlowr4]

^ Oh hello honey. Yeah I might use that instead, seems simpler. I'll keep the other in mind though, bergauk (bookmarked), for other systems. A lot need those sorts of recoverys but I'm limited with what I use atm. That'll be great

Cheers, I'll have a go and post back.

*sigh*. Ok, so I burned it to a CD, went to shut down the system from the restricted account, and lo and behold, a file on the desktop called 'passy'. Of course, it was the password and username for the admin account. Oh the fun of making myself look like a retard, and wasting forum space...

Either way, I'll still proberbly end up using both those programs, thanks. However, I've gotten 'windows not geniune' message now, and the famous black background and everything. Oh well, that's for the techie to sort out when I send the system back. It will still act as normal, correct?

 

[Grayfox]

Type Activate Windows in start and select Activate Windows, then select type in new product key, type in the product key found on side PC click OK, then select Activate Windows Online Now.

 

[tlowr4]

^ It's an old Optiplex, I don't have the CD key or I would do so. The original OS was XP home, it now has 7 Enterprise. Can I still use the system as normal when it's not activated?

 

[Grayfox]

Not really.

If it comes to a you must activate windows now tell it to buy a key, this will open IE.
Then in the address bar type in C:\
This will bring up a FTP view of the C: drive
then open Windows and start Explorer.exe
then you will have semi normal use.

 

[tlowr4]

^ I can still access the desktop and launch all applications, I've just got the "This copy of Windows is not genuine" writing in the bottom right.

 

[daan]

This has went far enough, and this thread is setting off alarm bells in my head.

First you need to get into the admin account, and now your windows isn't genuine. It doesn't really matter if your telling the truth or not or if this is just a story you've concocted in order to access an account you shouldn't be in.

You need to talk to the techie at school about this. It's his issue, not ours.