📎 AI Summary:
The original poster, Fenton, seeks help after forgetting the password to a disk they encrypted or protected, which is now inaccessible. Neemobeer responds by suggesting options depending on the type of password: resetting Windows account passwords for email or local accounts, or reformatting the drive if it was encrypted with a forgotten encryption password. Overall, the thread provides guidance on password recovery or reset methods, highlighting that forgotten encryption passwords may necessitate data loss through reformatting.
The original poster, Fenton, seeks help after forgetting the password to a disk they encrypted or protected, which is now inaccessible. Neemobeer responds by suggesting options depending on the type of password: resetting Windows account passwords for email or local accounts, or reformatting the drive if it was encrypted with a forgotten encryption password. Overall, the thread provides guidance on password recovery or reset methods, highlighting that forgotten encryption passwords may necessitate data loss through reformatting.
Solution
If you mean a Windows account password you can reset them.
For local accounts you can use the NT Offline password editor
Link Removed
If you're using a email address as your login
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4026971microsoft-account-how-to-reset-your-password
If you mean you encrypted the hard drive and forgot that password you'll need to reformat the drive as brute forcing those passwords are close to impossible.
For local accounts you can use the NT Offline password editor
Link Removed
If you're using a email address as your login
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4026971microsoft-account-how-to-reset-your-password
If you mean you encrypted the hard drive and forgot that password you'll need to reformat the drive as brute forcing those passwords are close to impossible.