Disable the Secure Boot option and change the Boot Mode from “UEFI Native (Without CSM)” to Legacy. When powering on the laptop, repeatedly press the Esc key to enter the Startup Menu, and follow the prompt to press F10 to enter the BIOS Setup.Īfter you’re in the BIOS Setup, navigate to System Configuration > Boot Options. Put the CD in the optical drive or plug the USB drive into the USB port of your HP ProBook laptop. Once you’ve created a PCUnlocker Live CD/USB drive, you can now bring it to unlock your HP ProBook notebook. Burn this ISO file to a blank CD or USB thumb drive with ISO2Disc. After you’ve downloaded the PCUnlocker program, unzip the downloaded file and you’ll get an ISO image: pcunlocker.iso. PCUnlocker is a bootable program that needs to run from a bootable CD or USB drive.
How to Reset Windows 8 Login Password on HP ProBook Notebook?
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to reset lost Windows 8 password on a brand new HP ProBook 430 G2 Notebook with PCUnlocker.
Instead of recovering the original password, you can reset a forgotten Windows login password instantly. However, this is also the most difficult method and can be very time consuming depending on the length of your password. There are a number of different ways to recover a lost Windows password by using something like Ophcrack which lets you to crack the hashes with rainbow table.
