Cant retrieve/recover my friends passwords on old harddrive

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So my friends harddrive recently started bluescreening and at first he thought he could just restart it few times and it would work, but no, its always a bluescreen poping up. So i got my hands on his harddrive, plugged it in and got acces to EVERYTHING, all his files and his accounts. so i think i should be able to get his passwords back right?

I’ve tried making a new windows account, get brave, put my friends brave files in to my new account and replacing them with the harddrive ones. I got VERY far, but when i went to password manager and the autofill thingy, there was nothing and i know myself that hes saved every simgle password on thereand that hes had offer to save passwords the entire time using brave, but i dont know how that feature works( the offer to save passwords). When i got in his brave account a got acces to his history searches, automatiaclly getting into some of his accounts (discord, etc).

So just trying to see if anybody reaches out to me with some help, in any possible way.

I have

  1. All his files (windows, user, apps, etc)
  2. able to acces all of them
  3. offer to save passwords

With all of this information i should be able to get his passwords back, right? (With all of this i also need just one email, but its somehow not saved i think, in the brave browser. maybe theres a folder/file with all used email? idk

Hope somebody reaches out!

Koko.

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I’m struggling with this. It all depends if you’re able to boot directly from it. Passwords are encrypted with OSCrypt. In other words, it uses the information from the device, operating system, and username/password combination to create an encryption key to display passwords.

The only way the passwords will be accessible will be if it has that exact combination. You spoke of creating a new Windows account and trying to access it from there, which wouldn’t be possible. In that situation they’ll be encrypted and won’t be shown in the browser. If you go to pull it up in the password files, it’s just going to be random encryption looking things like ðÂ.

Did he never sync it with his phone or something? If so, that will be the easy way of recovering. Otherwise, pretty much going to be impossible unless you’re able to launch directly from the drive or you can access via his original computer and user account.

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