this link<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. Copy the URL to the Finnix ISO that you want to use.<\/p>\nNow we need to upload the ISO. Navigate to the management panel of your instance and paste the URL in the upload field.<\/p>\n
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After a few moments, you will see the image labelled as “available”.<\/p>\n
![\"finnix_2.png\"](\"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/kb-images\/finnix_2.png\")
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Attach and restart your instance<\/h6>\n
Get back to your management panel, select the newly uploaded ISO, then click the “Attach ISO and Reboot” button.<\/p>\n
![\"finnix_3.png\"](\"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/kb-images\/finnix_3.png\")
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Then, connect to your instance console by clicking the “View Console” button. It may take a few moments for you to be able to view your instance console as AKLWEB HOST transfers uploaded ISO to your instance location.<\/p>\n
Boot with Finnix<\/h6>\n
Once your machine boots, you will see the Finnix boot menu. The option “Boot Finnix (64-bit)” will be selected. Press “enter” to boot 64-bit Finnix.<\/p>\n
![\"finnix_4.png\"](\"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/kb-images\/finnix_4.png\")
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After a moment, Finnix will provide you with a terminal where you can input commands.<\/p>\n
![\"finnix_5.png\"](\"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/kb-images\/finnix_5.png\")
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Mount your Windows drive<\/h6>\n
Now we need to mount the partition that has your Windows Server installation on it. Use the fdisk -l<\/code> command to determine the partition device.<\/p>\nfdisk -l\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\nAn easy way to determine the partition device is to compare the size of the partition device to the size of your AKLWEB HOST VM. For example, I have a 45GB Windows Server 2012 plan. The output of fdisk -l<\/code> shows me that \/dev\/vda2<\/code> has a size of 44.9G<\/code>. Therefore \/dev\/vda2<\/code> is the partition that I’m interested in; note that yours may be named differently.<\/p>\n![\"finnix_6.png\"](\"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/kb-images\/finnix_6.png\")
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Mount the partition.<\/p>\n
mkdir \/mnt\/win\r\nmount \/dev\/vda2 \/mnt\/win\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\nYou will likely get the error shown below saying “The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).”. Don’t worry, that’s normal.<\/p>\n
![\"finnix_7.png\"](\"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/kb-images\/finnix_7.png\")
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We can run the ntfsfix<\/code> command to resolve this error. Replace \/dev\/vda2<\/code> with your partition.<\/p>\nntfsfix \/dev\/vda2\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\nNow you can mount the partition again.<\/p>\n
mount \/dev\/vda2 \/mnt\/win\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n![\"finnix_8.png\"](\"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/kb-images\/finnix_8.png\")
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Clear the password<\/h6>\n
Navigate to the C:\\Windows\\System32\\config<\/code> folder.<\/p>\ncd \/mnt\/win\/Windows\/System32\/config\/\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\nEdit the Administrator account with chntpw<\/code>.<\/p>\nchntpw SAM\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n![\"finnix_9.png\"](\"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/kb-images\/finnix_9.png\")
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Here you may clear the administrator password and also unlock the account. The account becomes locked when you try to login too many times before attempting to reset the password. Follow these steps.<\/p>\n
\n- Type
1<\/code> – This clears the Administrator password.<\/li>\n- Type
2<\/code> – This unlocks the Administrator account.<\/li>\n- Type
q<\/code> – This quits chntpw<\/code>.<\/li>\n- Type
y<\/code> – Confirms “yes” for “Write hive files?”.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nUnmount the partition.<\/p>\n
cd ~\r\numount \/mnt\/win\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\nThe administrator password has been reset.<\/p>\n
Booting back to Windows<\/h6>\n
You should now remove the ISO because as long as it is attached, your server will show the Finnix boot menu when you restart it. Click “Remove ISO” on the AKLWEB HOST control panel.<\/p>\n
![\"finnix_10.png\"](\"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/kb-images\/finnix_10.png\")
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AKLWEB HOST will reboot your VPS, and you can login to Windows as Administrator<\/code> with no password.<\/p>\nRemember to set a password<\/strong> after logging in. On newer versions of Windows Server, you can set your password on the Ctrl+Alt+Del<\/strong> menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","manualknowledgebasecat":[248],"manual_kb_tag":[366],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/2600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/manual_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/2600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2614,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/2600\/revisions\/2614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"manualknowledgebasecat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manualknowledgebasecat?post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"manual_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb_tag?post=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}