How to Factory Reset HP Laptop without Password

All security precautions appear to be excellent, but if you choose a difficult password and frequently change it, it is likely that one day when you enter your password, you will get a notice on the screen indicating that the password you typed is incorrect. This might be a frustrating situation since you won't be able to access your operating system unless you type the correct password.

Hence, if your password prevents you from factory resetting your HP laptop, this is the post that will lead you to factory resetting your HP laptop without a password.

3 ways of how to factory reset HP laptop without password

There are various methods for restoring an HP laptop to factory settings, including utilizing a recovery disc or the HP Recovery Manager. You may be prompted for a Windows administrator password to complete the restoration. The difficulty is that if you don't know the password or have forgotten it, the process may be a little complicated. So, please be cautious as we begin.

Method 1. Factory reset HP laptop in Windows Recovery Environment

A factory reset HP laptop implies that you have access to your HP laptop, and if you truly want to factory reset, you may do it through Settings. But, if you are locked out of the system and unable to use your HP laptop, and losing your data is not an issue, you may simply factory reset the HP laptop in WinPE.

Note: Turn off your HP laptop and detach all external devices from your HP laptop.

Step 1. After making sure no external media is attached, click on the “Restart” button to reboot your HP laptop.

Step 2. Hold the “Shift” button while clicking on the “Restart” on the password screen.

Step 3. Select Troubleshoot > Reset this PC. If you can access your PC, click on the Start button > Settings > Update & Security and Reset this PC.

Step 4. Choose “Keep my files” or “Remove everything.”

Step 5. Choose what you really want to “Just remove my files” or want "Fully clean the drive.”

That’s it. Click “Reset.” And wait for the system to perform a factory reset on your HP laptop, and after the restart, you will be able to enter the HP laptop without any password.

Method 2. Factory reset HP laptop by HP recovery manager

If you don't like the factory reset in Windows, you may alternatively factory reset your HP laptop using HP Recovery Manager.

Note: No internal or external media should be connected to the laptop.

Step 1. After confirming that power on your laptop, boot your computer, and immediately press the “F11” key repeatedly from your keyboard until you find the “Choose an option” on the screen. Hit the “Troubleshoot.”

Step 2. From the Troubleshoot menu, choose “Recovery Manager.”

Step 3. When the Manager program appears on the HP laptop screen, click on the “System Recovery” option.

Step 4. On the next screen, you can pick any one option to proceed, and click on “Next” to proceed.

Step 5. Hit “Continue” to start the recovery process.

Wait here and as soon as it finishes, click on the “Finish” button to reboot your HP laptop. Then sign in to your HP laptop without any password and do what you want to do.

Method 3. Factory reset HP laptop after logging into the system

Another possibility is you inadvertently lost the login password for Windows, and you are not permitted to change default settings on your laptop unless you have the appropriate admin password. In this case, we recommend that you reset or remove the login password using password recovery software such as AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional.

It is a disk and partition management tool for Windows PC supporting Windows 11/10/8/8.1/7/XP/Vista system. The “Reset Password” function can help users to create a password reset USB on any working Windows PC and then plug this USB into the target PC to reset or remove the password. No Windows system limitations.

After you use this tool to enter the system, you can factory reset HP laptop.

Tip: If you want to reset password on a Windows Server PC, you need to choose the Server Edition of this tool.

Part 1. Remove/Reset HP laptop password

Step 1. Plug a USB into your computer and launch the installed AOMEI Partition Assistant. Select "Tools" and “Reset Windows Password” in the main interface.

Step 2. There will be a pop-up window that notice you to create a WinPE bootable media. Read the guidance and then click “Next”

Step 3. Three ways are available to create bootable media based on Windows PE. Normally, we choose USB because it’s convenient to use bootable USB to boot into WinPE, but if you have any other suitable devices, that will work.

Step 4. The USB flash drive requires to be formatted, and all the data will be erased in this step. Please make a backup of your important data.

Step 5. After the process finishing, please start the PC that you hope to remove the password from the flash drive. Choose the Windows system and click “Next”.

Don’t forget to enter BIOS to change the boot order under the menu, and then you can boot from the Windows PE USB flash drive, CD, or DVD.

Step 6. Choose the target account, and select the choice you hope to operate.

Step 7. You can see two choices here: Remove Account Password and Reset Account Password

If you choose to reset the password, after clicking, you can input the new password and confirm it to reset. And then select “Yes” to start the operation.

When you complete the operations, you can click “Reboot Computer” to restart, and enter Windows with a new password.

Part 2. Factory reset HP laptop

Now you can enter Windows to easily reset your HP laptop.

Step 1. Log into your HP laptop, then go to the search bar and search for “Reset this pc.” From the results, choose the relevant subject and click on it.

Step 2. In the Windows settings, from the screen, click on the “Get Started” feature.

Then you’ll see the “Choose an option” blue screen as method 1 shows. The next steps are also the same. Click on any of them that most suit your situation, “Keep my files” or “Remove everything.” The “Remove Everything” option would be great if you want to change the administrator account. Follow the instructions of your choice, you can successfully reset your HP laptop.

Conclusion

If you don’t know how to factory reset HP laptop without password, then this post gives you a detailed answer.

AOMEI Partition Assistant is a versatile tool, as a handy disk manager, it can also help you upgrade disk without reinstalling the system and apps, recover lost files, test disk speed, move folders and apps for data protection and releasing disk space… You can solve many PC issues with this practical software.