Lenovo Yoga laptop user has forgotten password. Laptop does not have CD, and does not see or boot from USB drive. Any suggestions are appreciated.
Windows 8
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McKnife
8/22/2022 - Mon
Wayne88
Can you go into safe mode as another admin user? If yes, then you can change a user password from there. Otherwise, you may have to buy a USB CD/DVD portable player and boot using the CD/DVD using a password recovery tool.
If you can't get that to work, as long as the drive isn't encrypted, you can slave the drive off of another computer, copy out the user's data, and perform a wipe and rebuild.
Not ideal, but it will get the job done.
What you may also want to do once you get this resolved, it to create a secondary admin account to where only you know the password. That way as was suggested above, you can log in and reset the forgotten password.
I do this for my home-based customers and it has worked very well.
The yoga is an instantgo-device which means, it allows uefi booting only.
The external usb is your best bet. Use a setup dvd, do the old utilman trick and you have it back.
Also check, 7 Free Windows Password Recovery Tools: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetrade/tp/passrecovery.htm