Windows password reset pogostick not working: kernel panic

On my windows laptop I get the following message when trying to login:

"the trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed"

According to Microsoft I should rejoin the domain - requiring a local admin account. But since, I do not know what local accounts are on the laptop I decided to use a password reset tool.

So I downloaded a bootable USB image from . The boot process however fails with kernel panic:

1. Booting … <many lines>
2. Decompressing Linux … Parsing ELF … done
3. Kernel panic - not synching: No init found. Try passing init = option to kernel

System: Lenovo T450s, CPU i5 5th generation.

Any Idea how to fix it or what other tool works fine?

1 Answer

I don't know if it will help other people in the same situation, but I hit this error when using the 2014-02-01 version (cd140201.zip) of ntpasswd (aka "Offline NT Password and Registry Editor"). I tried using an earlier version (cd110511.zip), and that worked for me.