How to Reset Windows administrator Password

EBCD (Emergency Boot CD) which is a very useful tools that can reset passwords and also can be used for emergency boot CD in case of system failure. Myself, I have used and tested this tool many times. Whenever, I deployed an image from VC and the password had some corruption issues, then I had to use EBCD to reset Administrator password and also other accounts on local systems, such as Windows XP and 2003 Server Std Ed.

I never encountered any problems using the EBCD but if anyone want to use this utility or this Post for their personal references, then I won't take any kind of responsibility for their system failure or damages for using this utility.
STEPS:
1. Makesure XP/Windows 2003 Server is installed on first IDE drive(c:\).
2. Download EBCD
3. Extract and run makeebcd.exe, and then burn the ISO image to a compact media (CD).
4. Boot the computer with CD. Once you get to the boot menu option. Select option(5) NT password editor (Linuxbased) and press Enter.
5. Press Enter to continue.
6. You need to Press Enter again if you don’t keep Windows on SCSI drive or jus type ‘y’ if you want to load SCSI drivers.
7. Here you need to select which Drive/partition that contains Windows Operating system(OS). You can press Enter to accept the default value in bracket[]. In this step, the default value is [/dev/hda1]. This is partition in Linux format which you can ignore the detail if you have Windows OS installed on local drive(C:).
8. Press Enter again to accept value in bracket[].
9. Press Enter again.
10. In this step, it’ll show the change NT password menu. Press Enter to accept value in bracket [1] (Edit user data and passwords).
11. Select a Username you want to edit. By default the value is Administrator, so in this case just press Enter to select the default user.
12. Enter new password for Administrator. I would recommend to set the password to blank by typing ‘*’ and press Enter, you could change it to something else later when you logged in to the system.
13. This the step where it will ask your confirmation, so just Press Enter.
14. Type ‘!’ and press Enter to go back to change NT password menu if you finish change password.
15. Just Type ‘q’ to quit.
16. In this step it will lists all the things that you’ve done. Just Type ‘y’ to confirm and save those changes.
17. Type ‘y’ again and press Enter to confirm copy settings back to your Windows.
18. Finally, you’ve finished resetting the Administrator password. Now you need to reboot your pc and test the changes you made to administrator account by logging on with a blank password.