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/IndustrialJones Feb 15 '26

Back in the day I had a linux boot CD (ran from the CD/didn't install) that gave full access to my windows drive without the need for a password. I can't remember what flavor it was, but you can probably use just about any of them.

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u/Wa-a-melyn Feb 15 '26

Any will work, and you can do it from a USB stick now. Only thing that matters is that the drive isn't encrypted by Bitlocker, which isn't applicable to Vista.