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Nicolas Raoul
Asked: 2013-12-10 22:08:13 +0800 CST

Unable to locate package chntpw

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To overwrite a Windows 7 password, one can boot from a Ubuntu LiveCD and run chntpw.

Unfortunately, installing chntpw is not so easy:

$ sudo apt-get install chntpw
E: Unable to locate package chntpw
live-cd

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    First open the Ubuntu Software Center, in the Edit menu click Software Sources..., and in the window that appears enable universe as seen below:

    Ubuntu enable universe

    Then run sudo apt-get update.

    You should now be able to install chntpw using sudo apt-get install chntpw.

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  2. Do this from the terminal

    sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install chntpw
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