Windows XP - administrator password
Chatondu54 Posted messages 2 Status Membre -
Hello,
I have an old computer (with two partitions of Windows XP installed) that I simply want to throw away, but before that, I would like to recover the documents on it.
On one of the partitions, there are no issues: there is no password and I was able to retrieve the photos.
However, on the other one, I remember neither the user password nor the administrator password (because there is one).
Do you know how I could proceed? I thought of two solutions:
- boot the computer with a Linux live USB to access the files. But it's an old computer (2005?) and I'm not sure which version of Linux would run on such an old machine.
- or access the documents from one partition to the other, but I'm not sure how to do that.
Alternatively, it might be possible to change the administrator password in Windows XP, but I haven't found a solution while researching...
Thank you very much for your responses!
2 réponses
Hello,
To access the documents of the second partition, the explorer from the first one is sufficient, but the password will likely be requested unless access has been previously saved with that password.
A lightweight distro like Puppy Linux should have no problem booting in Live USB on this type of hardware.
Thank you very much for your reply.
For the first possibility: I’m just not sure I can see them with Explorer (the show hidden files option is enabled). Indeed, when I go to "disk management", there are two parts (without names) with 10 gigabytes that do not appear in Explorer and that I also cannot open in disk management. But maybe it’s nothing?
Sorry, it's to potentially recover old family photos.
Thank you for the Puppy Linux advice (which seems to work on 32 bits, so that's great), I will try to go that route and I will repost in the coming days.
Thanks again