Free Download Ophcrack for Windows 8/8.1
Cracking passwords is usually not required as long as you remember the passwords for the accounts on your machine. However, what sometimes happens is that you forget the password for an account on your computer and that's when you rush to a tool that can help you crack the password for that account.
There are tons of tools in the market that can help you recover these forgotten passwords, however, only a handful of those actually work and let you regain access to your account. One of these handful tools is Ophcrack which is a known tool for cracking passwords on Windows computers.
Ophcrack is a nice tool that helps you recover the passwords for the accounts on your Windows computer. You can even burn it to a CD and boot up your computer from it and then begin cracking passwords on your machine. Below we will show you how to free download Ophcrack Windows 8.1/8 USB to recover forgotten local Administrator and user password on Windows 8.1/8 easily.
Downloading Ophcrack for Windows 8/8.1
- 1. Open a web browser such as Google Chrome on your PC and head over to the Ophcrack website. When the website loads-up, you will find a button saying Download Live CD. Click on it and it will let you download the Live CD version of the Ophcrack app.
- 2. Save the downloaded Live CD ISO on your PC. Then, get a blank disk and put it into the CD drive of your PC. Use a disk image burner and get the Live CD ISO burned on the blank disk. It will not take too long to do that.
- 3. Once the ISO has been burned, reboot your PC and boot it from the Live CD and Ophcrack will load up. Follow what it says and you should be able to recover the password for your user account.
- 4. The next time your PC asks for a password, you can use the password that you recovered using Ophcrack and it will let you in.
So, that was how you could download and use Ophcrack for Windows 8 and 8.1.
Ophcrack Cannot Work on Windows 8/8.1 Computer?
As you know, Ophcrack is a free tool that can crack Windows XP/Vista/7 login password. it is not compatible with Windows 10/8.1/8 well. If you boot up your locked computer from Ophcrack disk, but get the error message saying "No partition containing hashes found" or "No tables found", it is because Ophcrack cannot work on Windows 8.1/8 computer.
In this case, you can use a more advance tool such as Windows Password Key, the best Ophcrack alternative, can easily forgotten Windows administrator/user password and Microsoft account password for Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP.
- 1. Download and install Windows Password Key on an accessible computer. Insert a CD/DVD disk or USB flash to the workable computer. Specify the CD / USB burning drive and click "Burn" to burn a password reset disk.
- 2. Plug the newly created password reset disk to your Lenovo computer. Set BIOS to boot computer from CD/DVD or USB.
- 3. After that, Windows password key appears on your screen. Follow the steps to reset Lenovo laptop password.
The tool lets you reset forgotten Windows 8.1 password in several minutes. Just head over to the Windows Password key website and download and install the app on your PC.
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