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My niece took my mother's PC because she forgot the Windows 8 logon password. She provided me with a list of passwords she remembers. Nothing works. We attempted to reset the password and we get a message asking for a USB key. We have the password hint that matches the password list provided. I pressed Shift+Restart to get the command prompt, but it still asks for the password. I hope I’m clear in my post. Thank you in advance for your help. If I can avoid using the hard drive as an external drive to recover photos and reinstall Windows 8 or perhaps Windows 10, that would be great.

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    georges97 Posted messages 14614 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   2 935
     

    Hello,

    I don’t see how you could avoid data being retrieved by a box or a special USB cable, because as a former CCM member, you have surely had the chance to read the responses almost daily to this kind of request and know that you will not obtain a method to bypass protections

    Besides the method you know, even if constrained, the only legal recommendation is a factory reset (data loss)

    Here you will find the reminder of the charter:

    https://www.commentcamarche.net/infos/25871-pourquoi-commentcamarche-n-aide-pas-a-trouver-un-mot-de-passe/

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