How to Recover Windows 8 Administrator Password with USB

Forgot administrator password and are locked out of your Windows 8 computer? If you have only one administrator account on your computer, you can resolve the password issue with USB. This article describes three popular tricks for recovering Windows 8 administrator password by using USB flash drive. Anything else about the administrator account will be fine. Process of Windows 8 password recovery will cost you about 3 minutes. Please select the following links to read the details.

Trick 1: Recover Windows 8 Administrator Password with USB Password Reset Disk.

Trick 2: Recover Windows 8 Administrator Password with USB Password Recovery Disk.

Trick 3: Recover Windows 8 Administrator Password with USB Windows Installation Disk.

Trick 1: Recover Windows 8 Administrator Password with USB Password Reset Disk.

If you create a strong password for your Windows 8 administrator account, you may need to create a password reset disk to prevent forgetting the password. That is storing password recovery information on a USB flash drive or floppy. When you forget the password for you administrator account and are unable to log on, you can use this USB password reset disk to recover the administrator password easily. Note: Anyone can use this disk to recover the password, and therefore have access to this account. So please keep the USB password reset disk in a safe place when you don't need to use it.

To recover Windows 8 administrator password with USB password reset disk, complete the following steps.

Step 1: Firstly, plug the USB flash drive (your password reset disk) into your locked computer. Open Windows 8 password reset wizard: submit a wrong password to your administrator account and then select “OK”. You will see a link for resetting password displayed under the password box. Click the link.

Step 2: On the password reset wizard, click “Next” to continue.

Step 3: Select the plugged USB flash drive name and then click “Next”.

Step 4: Create a new password for your administrator account and then click “Next”.

Step 5: Click “Finish” to close the wizard. You will now be able to log on to the administrator account with the new password.

 

Trick 2: Recover Windows 8 Administrator Password with USB Password Recovery Disk.

If you have forgotten your Windows 8 administrator password with no password reset disk, you are unable to create password reset disk this time, but you can follow this guide to create a password recovery disk from another computer and then use it to recover Windows 8 administrator password on your locked computer.

To accomplish this task, you need help of Windows Password Rescuer which is one of most popular Windows password recovery tools. By using this password recovery tool, you can easily create recover lost local or domain administrator password for Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, XP, Windows server 2019, 2016, 2012/R2, 2008/R2, 2003/R2 and 2000 without data loss.

This is a clever trick which works with USB, CD and DVD. Here I will show you how to use Windows Password Rescuer Personal to recover Windows 8 administrator password with USB flash drive.

Step 1: Create a password recovery disk with USB flash drive from another computer.

1. Download and install Windows Password Rescuer Personal on another computer which you can access as administrator. (From the following buttons, you can purchase the Windows Password Rescuer Personal full version or free download the trial version.)

2. After installing the software, plug your USB flash drive into the current computer and launch the software. There are two options for you to create a password recovery disk. Just choose “USB Device” option.

3. In the next interface, pull down the drive list and select the USB drive name. Then click “Begin Burning”. When a confirm message appears, select “Yes”. Note: This process will format the USB flash drive, please ensure that you have back up data from the USB or there is nothing on it.

4. Burning successfully completed, unplug the USB flash drive. Now you can use the USB flash drive to recover any Windows user account password on your locked computer.

Step 2: Recover Windows 8 administrator password on your locked computer.

1. Firstly, connect the USB flash drive to your locked computer where you need to recover Windows 8 password.

2. Set the computer to boot from USB. (If you have trouble to do this step, refer to this guide. It is easy to boot a computer from USB.)

3. Once the computer successfully boots from USB, Windows Password Rescuer Personal will run automatically. All Windows 8 LOCAL user accounts will be displayed in list. Now select your administrator account from list.

4. Click “Reset Password” button. When it prompts you that the administrator password will be reset to blank, select “Yes” to continue.

5. The administrator password has been removed and shown “Blank” in list.

6. To finish, click “Reboot”. When a confirm message pops up, unplug the USB flash drive first and then select “Yes”.

7. PC restarts and loads Windows 8 normally. Then you can sign into the administrator account without password.

 

Trick 3: Recover Windows 8 Administrator Password with USB Windows Installation Disk.

There is another clever trick for recovering Windows 8 administrator password is using Command Prompt. All you need is to prepare an official Windows 8 installation disk. Usually you can download a Windows media creation tool from Microsoft’s site. With help of the creation tool, you can create a Windows 8 installation disk on USB flash drive. If you already had the disk, complete the following steps to recover Windows 8 administrator password.

Step 1: Plug the Windows 8 installation USB into your locked computer and then boot the computer from USB. When Windows setup screen appears, select “Next” to continue.

Step 2: In next screen, select “Repair your computer” option.

Step 3: Select “Troubleshoot”.

Step 4: Select “Command Prompt”.

Step 5: Command window is open. Type in the following commands and press Enter key after each one. When you finish this, the system file “utilman.exe” will be replaced with “cmd.exe”.

1. D: (Please replace D with C if your current Windows drive is C.)

2. Cd windows

3. Cd system32

4. Ren utilman.exe utilman_bak.exe

5. Copy cmd.exe utilman.exe

Step 6: Remove your Windows installation USB disk. In the command window, type “wpeutil reboot” and then press Enter key.

Step 7: PC restarts and boot Windows 8 normally. When the login screen appears, click “Ease of access” to open Command window.

Step 8: Type in “net user administrator 123456” and then press Enter key. The administrator password will be reset to the new one.

Step 9: Close the command window and then you can use the new password to log on to the administrator account.

 

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