Admin Password Reset on HP Proliant Raid Server

There are many solutions for resetting forgotten password for Windows server 2016/2012/2008/2003. Because lack of the Raid controller driver, those solutions may work incorrect on HPE Proliant Raid server. Here I want to tell you how to load the driver and reset forgotten password for HP Raid server.

1. Use USB PE disk to reset Windows server password on HP server.

Part 1: Create Windows PE disk.

1. Download and install ADK. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/get-started/adk-install.

2. Start -> ADK -> Run Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment as administrator.

3. On command line windows, run command  “copype amd64 C:\WinPE_amd64″.

4.  Find and Download HP Server raid controller driver from HP official site.

Also, you can use “computer model” + “driver” or Raid controller model to search the driver on google.com or bing.com, such as search “HPE ProLiant DL20 Gen9 Server driver for Windows 2012”.

5. Add driver to Windows PE image. Unzip the driver, and use dim command to add driver to the image disk. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/add-and-remove-drivers-to-an-offline-windows-image.

6. Use command MakeWinPEMedia Create a USB PE boot disk. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/winpe-create-usb-bootable-drive.

Part 2: Reset password for HP Server.

1. Start and boot the the locked HP server from USB PE disk.

2. On command prompt, run the commands as blow.

3. Press “Shift” key repeatedly until command prompt starts, then run command “Net user” to reset password for locked account.

4. Success is coming… Close the command line windows, and then you can login with new password.

5. Boot from PE disk again, and undo the rename operations of cmd.exe and sethc.exe file.

2. Use iSunshare software to recover admin password for HPE server

iSunshare Windows Password Genius Raid is an easy to use software. With this isunshare software, you are able to create a USB password disk with another Windows PC, MAC computer or rooted android device. It support HPE ProLiant server, include ProLiant DL series, ProLiant ML series, ProLiant BL series and HPE Integrity BL etc.
Download iSunshare Windows Password Genius Raid
User guide.