How to recover MS Access Database password

This guide describes how to recover MS Access 97/2000/xp/2003/2007 password with Vodusoft Password Recovery Suite 2012 or Vodusoft Access password Reovery.

Get one of the following prgoram:

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Step 1: Select a password protected access database file: Click "Open" , and then browse to choose an access file.

 

Browse files and select an access file which you want to recover its password.

Step 2: Choose the appropriate attack mode to recover lost password.

There are four attack types: Brute-force Attack, Mask Attack, Dictionary Attack and Smart Attack.

Step 3. Attack settings.

Option 1: If you choose Brute-force Attack or Mask Attack, the password recovery engine will try all possible combinations in the specified Range.

"Range" setting - Specify the characters your password may use.

All caps latter(A - Z): If you make sure that the password doesn't contain these characters, uncheck this options, or make it checked.

All lower case latter(a - z): If you make sure that the password doesn't contain these characters, uncheck this options, or make it checked.

All digital(0 - 9): If you make sure that the password doesn't contain these characters, uncheck this options, or make it checked.

All special symbols(!@#...): If you make sure that the password doesn't contain these characters, uncheck this options, or make it checked.

User-defined: If you know exactly what character your password contain, use this option. For example: If your password is yytt123, and you know exactly the password contains 'y', 't', '1', '2' and '3', you can use User-defined:yt123.

Tips: If you choose all characters options, it will definitely increase the possible combinations, so it will take much time to attect a simple password likes 123456. Here I recommend you try simple character sets first, if it cannot find the password, and then try more character sets. For example, you can spend few minutes to attect a password with All Digital(0-9) only.

"Length" Settings - If you known the possible length of your password, please specify it.
Minimal password length: Specify the minimum possible length for the password.
Maximal password length: Specify the maximum possible length for the password.

Option 2: If select Mask Attack, you should specify some password symbols which you can remember. A Password Mask must be defined to use Mask Attack.

For example, you know the following information of the password:

1. 1. Contains 9 characters;
2. 2. Starts with 'Y;
3. 3. Ends with '56';
4. 4. The unknown characters are low case letter (a-z).

So you can specify a mask like this: Y??????56. '?' indicates an unknow character. Check All small latin(a-z) only. And switch to Length tab, and set length to 9.

If you know the password contains an occurrence of the mask character '?', you can use '*' as mask character to avoid using the same character '?' to represent both an unknown pattern position and a known character. In this case, you should change the mask symbol from '?' to '*'. For example, '*', and use a mask pattern of "x******?" (for mask symbol '*').

Option 3: If Select Dictionary Attack, please click "Dictionary" on the tabbar to set a dictionary.

"Dictionary" Settings:

If you have a self-created dictionary file which may contain the password, please use it, or do nothing to use the default dictionary.

Step 4. Click "Start" button to recover the lost password for access database.

Step 5. When the access password is recovered successfully, the password will be display as follow: