Been using it for a little but still not very experienced in it.
Just recently though went to regain a lost XP admin password (computer is running like a celeron 1.4GHz with 256MB ram) and when I booted into OC, it just gave me an error in the console saying that no partitions were found with a hash in it.
Anyway just wanted to know if anyone knew a quick fix because I don't really want to reinstall windows and I am giving it to a friend who has no idea how to use linux (or else I would have given him symphony, slackware, or ubuntu)


thanks in advance.

Yeah I thought about that, but I really want to know what my old password was because I used it for my email account also and I have no idea what that was. I am sure there is something important in there like my lottery winnings (aha I wish )

Why dont you just spend some time with OphCrack and understand at least why it doesnt work.  Most crackers like that only work if you have Admin privs so thats the catch 22.  You need to boot to a live Linux security CD and grab the SAMS file. Then you can crack it if its not too complex. Can you at least remember how long your password was, I am assuming this really is your box, hehe.   If you made your password very complex, well even rainbow tables are not going to do you any good.

I've used Cain with great success, it also has online lookup against a rainbow table, I've never tried that feature, but it should make the cracking a lot easier. But that won't learn you much about how Ophcrack works