Reformat an eMachines E525
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Hello and first of all thank you for your future help.
I will briefly explain, my mother received a PC from her boss that he hasn’t used for a while, unfortunately he doesn’t remember the password to open it (or doesn’t want to out of fear that we will access his documents) so I wanted to reformat it so that there wouldn’t be a need for a password anymore, but I can’t find this reformatting center. Does anyone have any idea where it is? I have tried several keys on startup. Thank you for your attention.
Configuration: Windows Vista / Chrome 42.0.2311.135
I will briefly explain, my mother received a PC from her boss that he hasn’t used for a while, unfortunately he doesn’t remember the password to open it (or doesn’t want to out of fear that we will access his documents) so I wanted to reformat it so that there wouldn’t be a need for a password anymore, but I can’t find this reformatting center. Does anyone have any idea where it is? I have tried several keys on startup. Thank you for your attention.
Configuration: Windows Vista / Chrome 42.0.2311.135
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Hello, start the PC while holding down the ALT key and tapping the F10 key at the same time.
See if that takes you to the factory restore (recovery) menu
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See if that takes you to the factory restore (recovery) menu
Best regards
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"The little I know, I owe to my ignorance" (Sacha Guitry)
No responses will be provided from 5-6 PM, thank you for your understanding :)
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Hello, no by holding down the ALT key and tapping the F10 key the computer starts up just fine, I really wonder if there is a factory reset menu because I had already tried some keys.
Hello, on Acer you also have the recovery with the option
"repair the computer"
tap the F8 key at startup
repair the computer
respond keyboard language
recovery management
in this kind of recovery manager
"repair the computer"
tap the F8 key at startup
repair the computer
respond keyboard language
recovery management
in this kind of recovery manager
Hello and thank you for the reply. So indeed, it is the F8 key that needs to be tapped. As mentioned, I arrive at the system recovery options after choosing the language, but in order to access the recovery options, it asks for the user's password or the HomeGroupUser$. As I said, I do not have the user's password. Is there a solution or not? Thank you again for the reply.
So it's either F10 or ALT F10...
I don't see any other solution.
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I don't see any other solution.
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"The little I know, I owe to my ignorance" (Sacha Guitry)
No responses after 5-6 PM, thank you for your understanding :)
Hi, for anyone looking for how to do it, I've found a very easy solution that doesn't take much time.
Download the version of Windows that is on your computer, take a USB drive and make it bootable. (If you don't know how to do it, just look it up on Google, it's your friend). Once that's done, insert Windows onto the USB drive, plug the drive into your PC, turn it on and simply reinstall Windows. When it asks for the product key, look on the back of your PC, there's often a little paper stuck on it with the Windows key. There you go, just like that.
Download the version of Windows that is on your computer, take a USB drive and make it bootable. (If you don't know how to do it, just look it up on Google, it's your friend). Once that's done, insert Windows onto the USB drive, plug the drive into your PC, turn it on and simply reinstall Windows. When it asks for the product key, look on the back of your PC, there's often a little paper stuck on it with the Windows key. There you go, just like that.