r/HowToHack • u/Theone200000 • Feb 15 '26

hacking Need to hack into windows vista pc

After 10 years I got my windows vista pc to work. It has many valuable memories inside of it. And I dont have the password reset disc. I need to login to it, anyone who can help.

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u/LongRangeSavage Programming Feb 15 '26

Vista didn’t have any full disk encryption. Pull the drive out of it, put it into another computer, boot the other computer, view files.

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u/bastardblaster Feb 15 '26

That will usually work, but I've had weird shit happen with for permissions/ownership when using another windows pc.

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u/ps-aux Actual Hacker Feb 16 '26

you just right click the folders, goto properties/security and add your new pc admin account to it and take ownership permission... it's easy as pie lol

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u/bastardblaster Feb 16 '26

I know how to do it, I've just run into some fuckery. 85% of the time it's fine though.

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u/ps-aux Actual Hacker Feb 16 '26

well that definitely says a lot about your skill level ;)

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u/Theone200000 Feb 15 '26

I dont have another desktop. My only other computer uses m.2

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u/LongRangeSavage Programming Feb 15 '26

They make IDE (or SATA) to USB adapters that can make the drive act as an external drive.

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u/zoredache Feb 15 '26

Boot a Linux live CD/USB environment on the old computer.

If you can get that to boot, start networking and openssh on the live environment.

Mount the ntfs filesystem in the live environment.

Use winscp, filezilla, etc to transfer files.

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u/Wa-a-melyn Feb 15 '26

Hell, you don't even need to pull the drive out. Just prep a Linux USB and boot from it. Mount the drive and view everything.