Re: creating the SAM repair file

[Carlos Perez <carlos_perez () darkoperator com>]

also installing a Service Pack wil generate it, in the case of 2003 and 2k you use ntbackup.exe on windows 2008, vista 
and 7 wbadmin.exe on nt4 rdisk

On Feb 24, 2011, at 12:00 PM, S. R. White wrote:

> When using the built in backup utility in Windows, you can cause it to be created by backing up the "system state", 
> which will force a new copy of the SAM in %SYSTEM_ROOT%/Repair.
>
> From: Ryan Dewhurst <ryandewhurst () gmail com>
> To: PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List <pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com>
> Sent: Thu, February 24, 2011 8:45:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] creating the SAM repair file
>
> I believe it gets created after a system restore has been done but I'm not 100% sure.
>
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Robin Wood <robin () digininja org> wrote:
> This may be a daft question but what generates, or causes to be
> generated, the Windows repair files which includes the SAM file?
>
> I'm wondering because I've been on a couple of jobs where the file has
> been missing and I'm wondering if there is anything I could do to
> force the system to generate it so I can steal it and get cracking.
>
> Robin
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