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 <[email protected]> > To: PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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