Change windows Administrator password
Recently I had some problems on my windows box and, somehow, I lost the administrator password. While trying to recover it from Linux, I managed to erase my entire partition table information. I thought everything was lost, but Linux (and google)once again came to my rescue:
First, I managed to change the Administrator password using this:
1. sudo apt-get install chntpw
2. Mount the windows partition somewhere (say /media/win)
3. Head to /media/win/windows/system32/config
4. Execute this: chntpw -u administrator SAM.
Then, after performing the stupid dd command that erased my MBR (and in the process deleted my entire partition table information), I managed to recover the partition table by using a command called “testdisk” (google for it 
).
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