Emergency Boot Disk Utility

This is the EBCD emergency boot disk and is effective at clearing windows passwords if you cannot log on. You will need to have a blank CD to burn the disk and some burning software.

PRINT THESE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE BOOTING FROM EBCD AND CLEARING PASSWORDS

• Restart PC with Emergency Boot CD in your CD drive.
• Boot to CDrom
• Choose option 5 when asked
• Press “enter” at “scsi drivers”
• Press “enter” at “n” for skip scsi drives
• Press “enter” at “dev/dha2”
• Press “enter” at “system 32/config”
• Press “enter” at “system security”
• At “What to do?” Press option 1 then press “enter”
• Enter the username to change (i.e. administrator or whatever name you want the password removed for) then press “enter” again,
• At “enter new password” enter a * so it will now be blank, at “Do you really want to change password” (Y) then hit “enter”, select ! to quit after changes press ! then “enter” ((Follow the same process for all passwords))
• At “What to do?” press q and hit “enter”
• At “Write hive files” press (Y) the hit “enter”
• At “About to write files back” press (Y) then hit “enter”
• You are now finished. Remove CD and restart you pc.