I’m sure everyone has came across a situation when they wished if they could copy or steal files from a PC(the one of your friend/ colleague etc.) but was resisted by a password protected user account. Right?
Today in this tutorial I’ll teach you just that i.e., how to copy or steal files from a password protected computer.
Step 1
Firstly you will need to create a bootable Linux USB disk. (Few days back I posted a tutorial on How to create a bootable USB disk. Click here to read it.)Step 2
Plug-in the bootable USB drive into the USB slot of the victim computer and reboot the PC. When the PC restarts, quickly go to the Boot Settings and choose the USB drive to boot from.
Soon you will be prompted by a screen asking you:
- whether you want to install the distribution (I’m using Ubuntu for this tutorial)
- or do you want to run the live disk
Select the live disk option from the menu. It should then take a few seconds to boot the OS from your pen drive.
Step 3
As the Ubuntu desktop appears, go to the top panel and click on 'places' and choose the hard-drive from the dropdown menu that appears.
Meanwhile in the desktop, you will soon notice the hard-disk logo appearing. Just click on it and browse the whole drive freely, without any password restriction.
To steal a file, just copy it to the Ubuntu desktop and shutdown the computer and then unplug the USB. And Voila, you’re done!!
This whole process may take approx 2-3 minutes if done correctly.
I’ve made a video tutorial on this which you can see below.
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