Question: A friend of mine asked me to encrypt the hard drive on his netbook (running Windows Vista) so I used TrueCrypt’s full-system encryption to do it. All is well.
Except now he forgot his Windows login password (still knows the hard drive unlocking one, though, so the netbook boots) and does not have the administrator password!
I’m thinking most password recovery tools will balk at the hard drive. Any thoughts on how I can fix this?
Answer: i’m assuming this user is setup as a regular user and is not the admin account? if so try hitting f8 after the truecrypt gateway and login to administrator via safemode, you should be able to reset the password via the control panel then.