It’s happened to all of us at some point or another: you go to log onto your computer and you type in the password and you get a Password Incorrect message. You try again and it doesn’t work. Then you type it in really slowly to make sure you didn’t mess up any character and it still doesn’t work! You’ve forgotten your password!

It’s never fun forgetting a password, especially if you have a lot of important data on your computer. Luckily, there are tools and methods that allow you to get access to your data without ever needing to know what the original password was. In this article, I’m going to talk about the different ways I have learned to regain access to a local account in Windows. Note that there is really no easy solution to this problem; you will have to open command prompts, type strange things and pray a lot. If you are using a Microsoft account, it’s actually a lot easier to reset your password! Just visit the and follow the instructions.

Formatting to exFAT will resolve the problem not just for my mac, but for everyone else's. It means I can just give my HDD to a friend and it will be both readable and writable whether he's using OSX or Windows. Doing this will delete all the data on the disk. If you accidently choose the wrong disk you will not be able to recover the data without special software or even a data recovery specialist, which can be extremely expensive. Step 4: Click on the USB Disk once. Then do a right click with your mouse to pull up a menu. Click on Format.

Windows 7 & Windows 8.1 Reset Password There are actually two ways you can go about resetting a password for a user account in Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. Microsoft office 2013 for mac. Both methods work on both operating systems, which is really convenient.

The first method uses the Windows 7 or 8.1 installation DVD and the second method involves using a third-party tool. If you don’t have your install CD/DVD, then use the second method.

Method 1 – Windows DVD Go ahead and grab your installation disc for Windows 7 or 8.1 and pop it into your CD/DVD drive. Restart your computer and boot up from the disc. Note that you might have to in your BIOS before the system will boot from the disc. For Windows 7, the first screen will make you pick your language, keyboard, etc. Just leave those as default and click Next.

For Windows 8, it will be similar. On the next screen, you’ll see a Repair your computer link at the bottom. Click on that link.

On the next screen for Windows 7, System Recovery options should find your Windows 7 install. Click on the Use recovery tools radio button and then click Next. Finally, click on Command Prompt to open the command prompt. For Windows 8, after you click on Repair your computer, you’ll need to click on Troubleshoot. Next, click on Advanced Options at the bottom. Finally, click on Command Prompt at the far right.