[shokan22]

I did a recovery of Win 8.1 from the factory installed recovery partition and set my PW (with a hint). Unfortunately, I must have mispelled the PW because the PW as I should have typed it in does not work. Tried all sorts of spelling variations, but none work. Also, tried booting up with a Win 7 disc in an external CD drive (the laptop has no CD drive), but nothing happened.

Any idea how to do this?

 

[Old Rich]

We don't provide any help with lost passwords or getting around password protection. Obviously, we can't determine the real intent here, so our policy is to abstain from any assistance in these matters.

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Users may not post hacks, cracks, or give instruction how to pirate any type of software, or anything similar, in any forum of TSF. We do not condone, support or give instruction on any illegal activity pertaining to computer systems, computer hardware, computer software programs or computer related activities. Included in this group of activities are requests for help to circumvent system admin passwords or Administrator settings on networks. We do understand that the majority of requests may be legitimate, but we do not have the means to discern these from non-legitimate requests.

 

[shokan22]

Dang. OK. Thanks anyway.