Extracting Admin hash from xp

I have seen a lot of tutorials on using live cd's to dump the hashes from the sam file but I haven't seen anything to do it from inside of windows itself. That's not to say it doesn't exist but does anyone know of a tool to do this?

u cant do it without a tool this is a good 1 but u need 2 be on an admi account so if ur trying to get onto a computer it dosnt really help http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/network_password_recovery.html it wrks great on my machine anyway and all my m8s who get really annoyed as it usually grabs hotmail passwords and other ones if they have saved the pass

try lophtcrack worked for me, I think thaqt's what it's called, then crack with john

Ok, I will try them out. Thanks.

i'd say that pwdump2 is the easiest way…

Phantomchaser wrote:

I have seen a lot of tutorials on using live cd's to dump the hashes from the sam file but I haven't seen anything to do it from inside of windows itself. That's not to say it doesn't exist but does anyone know of a tool to do this?

Because you need administrative access to use most of these tools. It's kind of hard to crack an administrative password when you need to be an administrator to use the program. Not to say that there aren't other ways of retrieving a password without dumping the SAM, but those methods aren't that n00b friendly and require knowledge+program, not just program.