Vmware Reset Windows Password
Theodora Glime
One of the ways to secure a VMware virtual machine is to enable the Trusted Platform Module and encrypt it with a password. Refer to the following article to know how to enable TPM on a virtual machine.
You will now see the dialog box with message Removing encryption from virtual machine. Depending upon the size of the virtual machine, this process may take around 2-5 minutes to decrypt the VM.
In this article, I have covered two methods to reset the VM password using VMware workstation. You can use any of these methods to reset or change a password that is set for a VM. If you have any questions or suggestions, let me know in the comments section.
Download the Windows Password Refixer program on any available computer, for example, your physical Windows machine or another virtual machine, and install it on this computer. Run this program and then follow the on-screen instruction to burn it to a USB (or CD/DVD) drive to create a password reset disk.
If you have everything done correctly, the Windows Password Refixer screen will appear after the virtual machine boots from the USB drive.
1. Select the Windows 10 you use in this virtual machine. Generally, this action is already done by default.
4. After the password is reset, restart the virtual machine using the Reboot button. This time, you need to remove the USB drive from the virtual machine so that the virtual machine will boot normally into Windows 10 and you can log in to Windows 10 with the password that is reset.
If you're using PowerShell, make sure that you have the latest PowerShell module installed and configured and are signed in to your Azure subscription. You can also perform these steps for VMs created with the classic deployment model.
If you enter a different name than the current local administrator account on your VM, the VMAccess extension will add a local administrator account with that name, and assign your specified password to that account. If the local administrator account on your VM exists, the VMAccess extension will reset the password. If the account is disabled, the VMAccess extension will enable it.
Reset remote access to your VM with the Set-AzVMAccessExtension PowerShell cmdlet. The following example resets the access extension named myVMAccess on the VM named myVM in the myResourceGroup resource group:
At any point, a VM can have only a single VM access agent. To set the VM access agent properties, use the -ForceRerun option. When you use -ForceRerun, ensure you use the same name for the VM access agent that you might have used in any previous commands.
If you still can't connect remotely to your virtual machine, see Troubleshoot Remote Desktop connections to a Windows-based Azure virtual machine. If you lose the connection to the Windows domain controller, you will need to restore it from a domain controller backup.
If you're unable to reset the password using the VM access extension then you can reset the local Windows password offline. This method is more advanced and requires you to connect the virtual hard disk of the problematic VM to another VM. Follow the steps documented in this article first, and attempt the offline password reset method only if those steps don't work.
In 2008 I have installed VMware Fusion 2 on my MacBookPro followed by MS Windows Visa operating system. I run everyting ok until yesterday when I restart the Visa but I forgot my administrator's password, so I cannot logon to my Visa anymore. I have tired to create passwrod disk on another laptop but it does not work also I have installed another copy of Vista on the same VMware Fusion 2 and create the password disk but again it does not work. I have read somewhere that I could use F8 key to get into boot windows to use default Administrator account but I do not know how to do it. Could someone tell me what would be the solution to either recover my password or some other solution that is tried and working please. Unfortunetly I did not create snap either last was in 2010 but that is not good as I need my files that I have recently created on Windows, is there a solution that will work please ???
You can use VMDKMounter to mount the virtual hard disk and recover your files. Have a look at: VMware Fusion (menu bar) > Help > VMware Fusion Help > Managing Virtual Machines > Using VMDKMounter to Mount a Virtual Disk as a Mac Volume
I woud like to reset password, however I do not understand how to reset the password to a blank password using a utility like Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor. sorry, I am not familiar with the utility, would need step by step help please.
great, that sounds like good start. Now how do I make CD, if I manage to make the CD then I just follow the instructions and hopfuly will do some job. Could you help me with making the cd, where do I look of how to make the required cd please ?
I've burned the ISO file onto a DVD with my second laptop, then I've tried to boot up on the laptop that has problems with password, however nothing is happaning not sure what could be wrong ??? Need more help please !!!
I recently found myself in the position of having to reset the Windows (2012 R2) domain admin password in a virtual (VMware) lab environment. This process involves temporarily replacing the Utilman.exe executable on the system install drive with a copy of the cmd.exe file. However, my domain controller was a VM on ESXi that required a 3rd party SCSi driver be loaded in order to view the OS drive/install.
The easiest method of loading this driver is to copy your drivers to a virtual floppy disk or .iso image and mount it on an additional virtual CD/DVD drive then boot the VM from your Windows installation media .iso to proceed with the password reset process.
Note: Because your server is started with bootable media, the System Reserved partition of your hard drive is temporarily marked as C: and therefore the C: drive that you see from within Windows 2012 is marked as E: drive (since the CD-ROM Disc is marked as D:). This is a temporary modification. Things will revert to normal as soon as you boot Windows 2012 normally.
I want to reset administrator password on Windows Server 2003. OS installed on VMware server VMware Server version 2.0.1. And problem is this: when i try to boot from live cd, after boot disk with Windows not detected. I tried to use
I typically use a Linux rescue CD for this purpose. My preference is the PLD Rescue CD, which is a standard part of my toolbox. PLD includes the chntpw - NT SAM password recovery utility, which allows blanking or modification of the Windows password file. Assuming some Linux knowledge, this process works reliably. More details at: -nt-passwords-with-linux-and-chntpw
All the Live CDs you've tried don't support virtual hard drive created by VMware. To get the Live CD to recognize the virtual hard drive, you need to add the VMware SCSI Disk Controller driver into the Live CD. You can download the driver from this link.
If you don't know how to inject the VMware SCSI driver into the Live CD, you can follow this guide to reset your lost admin password. The guide has included a boot CD which supports VMware SCSI hard drive already.
After installing a few windows 10 vm's on my ESXi lab, I, of course, forgot the admin passwords I used to set them up. Normally this is a bootable USB with some SAM file editing tools on it, but this is virtual hardware land. The following procedure worked to get me into the virtual BIOS of my vm.
There is a new feature in Windows 8/10 called Fast Startup. If this feature is enabled (which it is by default), Windows does not actually completely shutdown when you choose shutdown. Instead, it does a "hybrid shutdown". This is something like hibernating; it makes booting Windows back up faster. So, you need to disable this feature to be able to shut it down properly, and be able to mount the Windows partitions.
As written in the KB 2034608 (Unlocking and resetting the VMware vCenter Single Sign-On administrator password) you can have this problem also in a case of multiple login failure (by default the account get locket if the password is incorrectly entered three times).
Last week I posted a question asking how I could recover or change the password for a VMware guest operating system (Windows 2000) that I had forgotten the password for. After receiving no useful suggestions, this week I allocated some time to solving the problem.
Windows password recovery tools usually consist of a bootable CD image containing a version of Linux that will overwrite the NT password with a known value or will extract the hashed password from the filesystem.
Once you have the password hash, you enter it in a form on their website and they look up the hash value in their database and give you a password that matches the hash. Note that even though they ask for your email address the password is displayed on a web page rather than being sent to your inbox.
Confession time. I have several VMWare images (Windows 2000) on my laptop which I was using for software development earlier in the year. I can no longer remember the password for any of these images.
Nice idea. I used the concept but substituted the Gentoo based System Rescue CD instead of the Windows XP Login Recovery program. SysRescueCD has a built-in ntpasswd boot option to reset Windows passwords.
Last month , I lost my windows vista administrator password. I solved my problem with the help of Reset Windows Password utility. It not only supports Windows Vista , I have personally tested it with Windows 7 . It worked perfectly to reset any local user account to a blank password. Just an easy to use bootable CD/DVD . It can also be used on a USB Flash Drive. You can download it from: -password.com/reset-windows-password.html
Thanks for the post. We had a 2000 server VM running on VMWare and it lost its trust with the domain. No one could remember the password so we had to hack it. We used Ophcrack at first but it didnt work so we dug out another password reset software and wallah! We have the server back on the domain! Thanks again for the post.
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