Pre-OSX, the password was in plain text at a specific offset into the boot blocks (I forget)
OSX obfuscated it.
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Where does Windows OS store user passwords? - Super User
8. Normally, Windows store passwords on single computer systems in the registry in a hashed format using the NTLM algorithm. The registry file is located in. C:\windows\system32\config\SAM. This area of the registry has restrictive permissions so that a normal user cannot see the contents of HKLM\SAM deep enough to access the hash.
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