Originally Posted by Roy Cooper
Out of interest, originally back in the day, passwords for windows were mainly used to stop a worker from removing a work hard drive, and taking it home to access and view the data on his/her home machine.

or

to stop a child from playing on dad or mom's home computer and causing problems.

of course passwords are useful for other reasons.

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I personally have never used a windows password because I hated having to type it in every time my computer was idle.

you can choose when installing windows, to not add a password, or you can remove the active password in windows itself.

Thus the problems that you are having, would not occur if you removed the drive and wanted to access it on another system.

Just a thought for when you next change your drive.

God Bless

Roy

Well this doesn't happen every day. And it will never happen again cause I have a external hard drive now, I didn't then.

It's not like I knew that would happen I didn't.

Never asked for my PCs to crash, and being sold new PCs cause the cost of repairing or replacing a drive was about 25% to 50% of buying a new one in sale, especially at membership prices.

But knowing this now doesn't help me, hindsight is 20/20.

But thanks for the tips, I will have to look into deeper, but was told by several couldn't be done