Using LinuxLite to repair Win 7 password

[Colin23erk]

 
  A third party has locked me out of Win 7 which is dual booted with LinuxLite . I have tried several Bootable repair Disks which have either failed to boot properly or require Input details which I am not able to supply .
I have used Synaptic to install [color=rgb(34, 34, 34)]chntpw[/color]
F[/color][color=rgb(34, 34, 34)]rom How To Geek i have tried to follow their method[/color]
[/color][color=rgb(34, 34, 34)]Using chntpw to reset your password[/color][color=rgb(34, 34, 34)]
[/color][color=rgb(34, 34, 34)]Before running chntpw, you will have to [/color][/color][color=rgb(34, 34, 34)]mount[/color][/color][color=rgb(34, 34, 34)] the hard drive that contains your Windows installation. In most cases, Ubuntu 9.10 makes this simple.[/color][/color][color=rgb(34, 34, 34)]Click on Places at the top-left of the screen. If your Windows drive is easily identifiable – usually by its size – then left click on it.[/color][/color][color=rgb(34, 34, 34)]If it is not obvious, then click on Computer and check out each hard drive until you find the correct one.[/color][/color][color=rgb(34, 34, 34)]The correct hard drive will have the WINDOWS folder in it. When you find it, make a note of the drive’s label that appears in the menu bar of the file browser.[/color]
Mine is -(/media/sda1/Windows/System32/config/ )
[/color][color=rgb(34, 34, 34)]If you don’t already have one open, start a terminal window by going to Applications > Accessories > Terminal.[/color][/color][color=rgb(34, 34, 34)]In the terminal window, enter the commands[/color]
[/color][color=rgb(34, 34, 34)]cd /media[/color]
[/color][/color][color=rgb(34, 34, 34)]ls[/color]
[/color][color=rgb(34, 34, 34)]pressing enter after each line. You should see one or more strings of text appear; one of those strings should correspond with the string that appeared in the title bar of the file browser earlier.[/color][/color][color=rgb(34, 34, 34)]Change to that directory by entering the command[/color]

[/color][color=rgb(34, 34, 34)]cd <hard drive label>[/color][/color][color=rgb(34, 34, 34)]Since the hard drive label [/color]
[/color][color=rgb(34, 34, 34)]will be very annoying to type in, you can use a shortcut by typing in the first few letters or numbers of the drive label[/color]
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colin@colin-NC110:~$ cd /media
colin@colin-NC110:/media$ ls
Backup  cdrom  colin  floppy  floppy0  sda1
colin@colin-NC110:/media$ cd sda1/
colin@colin-NC110:/media/sda1$ cd WINDOWS/system32/config/
bash: cd: WINDOWS/system32/config/: No such file or directory

colin@colin-NC110:/media/sda1$
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[color=rgb(34, 34, 34)][b][font=Verdana][size=3]To change or reset the administrator password, enter:[/size][/color][/b][/font]
 
[b][font=monospace][color=rgb(34, 34, 34)][size=5]sudo chntpw SAM[/size][/b][/font][/color]

[size=3][b][color=rgb(34, 34, 34)]SAM is the file that contains your Windows registry. You will see some text appear, including a list of all of the users on your system.[/b][/color][b][color=rgb(34, 34, 34)]We want to switch to a certain Windows directory. Enter the command[/b][/color] [/size]
[b][font=monospace][color=rgb(34, 34, 34)][size=5]cd WINDOWS/system32/config/[/size][/b][/font][/color][size=3][b][color=rgb(34, 34, 34)][/b][/color][/size]
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