Windows 10: How do I access my laptop after formatting?

I have an HP laptop originally with windows 7 upgraded to Windows 10. I had intended to give it to my grandson and had a lot of personal and financial stuff on it. I used the internal program to format the hard drive and clean everything except the Windows 10 app. I thought that I put in a simple password 123456 which he could change by putting in his own pin. However, when I turn the laptop on and put in 123456 as the password, it says invalid. So I tried my Microsoft account password to no avail. I tried my personal pin also to no avail. I tried several others also 1234, 12345, etc all to no avail. The laptop came preloaded and update to win 10 was done on the web so I do have a disc or USB stick. I don't really want to have to repurchase a Win 10 disc so I would appreciate amy help I can get. Thanks, Lloyd

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How To Format A Write Protected Flash Memory ?

¿You already tried this one?...

Run CMD


1. diskpart
2. list disk

Then in the 3º step, put the correct number of disk in the list for the usb flash (if it's listed in disk 3, then you'll have to write select disk 3).

2. select disk #
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

with that commands you will format the flash drive in fat32, if you have a large drive you can select also "format fs=ntfs" in step 7.

good luck!

 

Accessing a Hard Drive...

...from a dead laptop.

My girlfriend's laptop recently s**t the bed, and she has a lot of photos she would like to retrieve from it. I used a USB to IDE cable to try, but it's a no go. Her drive has Windows XP Home on it, and my system has Win7 x64. The computer recognizes the drive, but it wants me to initialize it, which I think may format it.

I don't know if it's formatted FAT32 or NTFS. Are there any suggestions on accessing the drive to pull all this data off of it?