Labtop And Password Issues, Please Help!

[fry_lover]

Hi All

I've got a labtop / password problem. The labtop is a Dell Inspiron 6400 with Vista. It's about 3 years old. I've always had a password on it (which is requested about 15 seconds after turning labtop on).

Last night my other half was trying to create a "password" for an individual folder on the desktop which has some important information in it. I was with her when she was doing it, she right-clicked on the folder and went into "security" but neither of us could work it out.

However, now we can't even get on the laptop as my previous password doesn't work which is strange as i think the most she done was "un-check" a box on the security tab or something, she definitly didn't type in any new passwords

Now i am left with a labtop i can't access and i can't find any original disks with the labtop to re-install anything, am i screwed?

When i type in the original password and it doesn't work a little prompt comes up saying "reset password" but if i click on that it says "the feature requires removable media such as a floppy disk or connect a USB flash drive and then try again"

Many thanks in advance for any suggestions here

Alex

 

[saltynay]

Your not screwed you can always take out the harddrive and plug it into your desktop copy the important info over and return it to the laptop.

Are you locked completely out of your user account? If so try running in safe mode press f8 repeatedly before windows loads up then select run windows in safe mode. Try and login there or use the admin account which may show

This forum is excellent post your Q here:
http/www.tech-forums.net/pc/f9/

 

[fry_lover]

Your not screwed you can always take out the harddrive and plug it into your desktop copy the important info over and return it to the laptop.

Are you locked completely out of your user account? If so try running in safe mode press f8 repeatedly before windows loads up then select run windows in safe mode. Try and login there or use the admin account which may show

This forum is excellent post your Q here:
[URL="http/www.tech-forums.net/pc/f9/"]http/www.tech-forums.net/pc/f9/[/URL]

Brilliant, tried it am now in using safe mode but wondering what next? Shall i delete the old password, if it's this easy i guess there is no point having a password right?

 

[fry_lover]

DONE!!!!

thanks

 

[saltynay]

No problem try not to do it again

What type of file were you trying to lock a folder or individual files. What ever you do don't use windows bit locker if you lose the password it is unrecoverable