Ultimate Boot CD

Yes I am not sure if it is sufficient but whenever I get rid of a hard drive I run it through DBAN first. Take care bud.

Piney, Thanks so much for your help. Luckily enough I did have a 32 and 64 bit Windows 7 recovery cd. I followed the instructions on the Livewire link and it worked. As someone who helps people with their computers I am happy there are hacker tools like this but as a personal user it certainly scare...

hi Piney,

I still haven't had any luck with UBCD or ophcrack. I downloaded a copy f Windows Password Key. The demo ran and says it is compatible with the machine I am trying to recover, but you have to buy it for it to actually do anything. Are you familiar with it and have you ever tried it?

Hi there, I went to the http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/, clicked Download ophcrack LiveCD no installation. On the next screen I chose the middle button, ophcrack Vista/7 LiveCD. I originally thought this meant Vista or Windows 7, but looking around at other sites I have seen Vista/8 and Vista/9 mak...

Looking at UBCD again it definitely looks like it sees the drive, because one of them I click on has an AVG folder as well as a windows folder.

So I also had tried a ophcrack cd before but it would also hang. Then last night all of a sudden I thought it might be for XP as I created it some time ago. I created a new bootable cd for W7 and sure enough this time it worked. Unfortunately it shows 'not found' for password for any of the three ID...

Sorry I was at my sisters all day. I will look at things first thing in the morning.

Okay I gt it loaded this time but when I go to Change Windows Password I get a message that Microsoft Windows is not loaded on this system

I found the menu you referred to. I am trying it now and will let you know the outcome.

Sorry for the delay. I thought my question wasn't going to get posted because I checked back 2 or 3 days later and I wasn't sure how long it takes to get approved.

The model is dv6000. For fail safe, do you mean starting the computer in safe mode?

I am trying to start the above on an HP laptop I have. It gets so far where it displays 4 messages about disabling IRQ's and then never seems to get any further. I have used this CD on a different laptop and it worked fine.