{"id":3614,"date":"2014-07-04T07:49:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T07:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=3614"},"modified":"2014-07-04T07:50:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T07:50:48","slug":"reset-forgotten-windows-8-password-on-asus-transformer-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/reset-forgotten-windows-8-password-on-asus-transformer-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Reset Forgotten Windows 8 Password on ASUS Transformer Book T300\/T100"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to unlock ASUS Transformer Book T300 after forgotten Windows 8 password? If you’ve tried the free password cracking Live CDs like Ophcrack or BartPE, you’ll soon realize that they won’t boot up on ASUS Transformer Book T300\/T100. That is because ASUS Transformer Book T300\/T100 is shipped with UEFI firmware instead of traditional BIOS.<\/p>\n

In this situation, PCUnlocker<\/a> can be of help and it fully supports UEFI booting. This guide will help you make a PCUnlocker Live USB with UEFI bootloader, and then use it to reset forgotten Windows 8 password on ASUS Transformer Book T300\/T100.<\/p>\n

Part 1: Preparing a bootable PCUnlocker USB drive<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Download<\/a> the zipped ISO image of PCUnlocker and save it on your local hard drive. Unzip it and you’ll see an ISO image named pcunlocker.iso<\/em>.<\/p>\n

2. Plug a 1GB or larger USB flash drive into your computer.<\/p>\n

3. Download Rufus<\/a>, a tool for creating bootable USB drives. Double-click the Rufus file to launch the utility.<\/p>\n

4. Choose the drive letter for the flash drive you jut plugged in under the “Device” drop-down menu. Choose “GPT partition scheme for UEFI computer” and “FAT32”.<\/p>\n

5. Make sure the box that says “Create a bootable disk using” is checked, and choose “ISO Image” and click the drive icon on the right to open an Explorer window and find your pcunlocker.iso image.<\/p>\n

\"rufus\"<\/p>\n

6. Click start. The computer will format your USB flash drive and prepare it as a bootable drive with UEFI bootloader. When the process is complete, eject it from your PC and move on to the next step.<\/p>\n

Part 2: Booting PCUnlocker on the Asus Transformer Book T300\/T100<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Plug the PCUnlocker USB drive into the USB port of your Asus Transformer Book T300\/T100.<\/p>\n

2. While turning on the Asus Transformer Book, press and hold the F2<\/strong> key so that you can enter into BIOS Setup. Another method is to hold down the volume down button while switching on. You then get 2 options to continue to boot into Windows or BIOS Setup. Then if you haven’t attached the keypad use the volume buttons to select “Enter Setup”.<\/p>\n

3. In the BIOS Setup, navigate to the “Save and Exit” menu, you should see an option under Boot Override<\/strong> that has the name of your USB flash drive. Select your USB drive under the boot override option and hit Enter. Your computer should now boot from PCUnlocker USB drive.<\/p>\n

Part 3: Reset Forgotten Windows 8 Password<\/strong><\/p>\n

Once you’ve booted into PCUnlocker, you’ll see a list of Windows 8 local accounts that are extracted from your Windows SAM database. Select a user account and click on “Reset Password<\/strong>” button, the program will remove your forgotten password in seconds.<\/p>\n

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If you’re using a Microsoft account as your machine’s login, there should be a local account that is linked to your Microsoft account, select that local account and reset the password. The program will assign a new password: Password123<\/em> so you can later log into your Windows 8 system locally.<\/p>\n

So this is how can you easily reset forgotten Windows 8 password on ASUS Transformer Book T300\/T100!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How to unlock ASUS Transformer Book T300 after forgotten Windows 8 password? If you’ve tried the free password cracking Live CDs like Ophcrack or BartPE, you’ll soon realize that they won’t boot up on ASUS Transformer Book T300\/T100. That is because ASUS Transformer Book T300\/T100 is shipped with UEFI firmware instead of traditional BIOS. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,39],"tags":[1756,1757,1755],"class_list":["post-3614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-8","tag-asus-transformer-book-password","tag-forgot-asus-windows-8-password","tag-reset-asus-windows-8-password"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3614"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3619,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions\/3619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}