Windows 10: Locked out after upgrade to W10 from W7

How do you boot into recovery mode? Do you boot from the harddisk, or from a USB bootable stick?

I'm never asked for a password when I use a bootable stick.

UPDATE: Yep, that's your problem. If you use the command prompt from the harddrive recovery, it needs your password. *Smile Just checked it with my netbook.

So, you have to make an USB bootable Recovery Drive with a working Windows 10 or use your USB Windows 10 Installation. Else you won't be able to reset your password.

 

Hello Rudy and tks again for your help. You will have to pardon me, but the question I now have is: how do I boot from a USB stick? The ones I have do not have the Windows 10 Recovery, nor the Windows 10 setup. Remember that what I did was to accept the Microsoft free upgrade from Windows 7 that was offered online. So I really do not know how to implement the sequence you suggest.

As for creating a Recovery Drive inside a working Windows 10, that is something I cannot do until I pass the challenge of being able to login into my computer.

So, back to square one. How do I reset the password so that I can access my computer? Sorry to be such a nuisance. Pls advise... if you are still awake!*Smile

 

If you have access to a windows 7 install or rescue disk this will also allow you access to the cmd.

 

You probably can also use a Windows 7 or 8.1 recovery drive. Any PC you can get your hands on, can produce a working Recovery Drive. *Smile

Bazz gave the answer a few seconds before me. *Tongue

 

Yup. You can put together a bootable Windows installation disk on any machine. You can also create a Linux Live disk on another machine and then successfully use an adapted sticky keys method from the Linux disk.

Edit: Just been looking at google, and it seems you can actually get packaged bootable software to fully automize the 'sticky keys' process. No need to enter command prompt....

 

I think he saying he can't create anything since he not able to load windows . So booting from what ever he can't since he doesn't have such . What he needs to do is use someone else PC and create such, then he can boot off it or maybe I miss understood what he was saying *Confused

 

You haven't misunderstood nothing. And that's what we're saying...go to someone else's machine and build the necessary bootable disk(s) there.

 

This is so annoying. I have bought a USB stick and tried to create a recovery drive from a working W10 computer. But somehow, Windows will not allow it! Any ideas/suggestions?

 

Make a cd create a system repair disk.

 

Do you get an error message when you try to create the recovery drive?

 

You can't just make a bootable usb drive, you have to use diskpart to make it bootable.

 

It doesn't matter what software you use to make the disk bootable, it's being done from another pc.

 

True but it's much easier and quicker to just create a cd.

 

*Smile No you don't, you have to use Create a Recovery Drive that's delivered with Windows 10 or even Windows 8.1 or 7. It can make a bootable USB without a problem. I just did it on this laptop to test it, before I mentioned it here.

You can even put a system backup on it, so you can use it to install Windows 10 on your system again, if your laptop would crash.

 

What software were you trying to put on the disk?