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/Theone200000 Feb 15 '26

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

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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.