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    Dell Inspiron Recovery w/o Administrator password?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by foleyit, Dec 18, 2012.

  1. foleyit

    foleyit Newbie

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    I did some searching and didn't find any thread that had some details how to do a recovery without the Administrator or Owner password. I am assisting a friend and his daughter isn't able to remember her password. The laptop hadn't been used in quite sometime due to a cracked screen that I replaced for them.

    Does anyone have any information on how to do a Restore to Factory Settings using the Recovery Partition?

    Thanks in advance.
     
    foleyit, Dec 18, 2012
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    We aren't supposed to talk about cracking or bypassing passwords on this board, so please don't.

    What you can do though, is just do a clean install and avoid the problem altogether.

    If you have trouble with that you can start a new thread with that topic in mind.

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    Commander Wolf, Dec 18, 2012
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