[6 Solutions] How to Unlock HP Laptop Without Password

I forgot my HP laptop password

To get the largest data security, Windows will advise users to create a password. But sometimes, they may forget their HP laptop passwords, if they have another administrator account, they can log in to the HP laptop. If they have only one account, they would be continuing to get into the HP laptop.

If you are stuck on unlocking your HP laptop, you can learn 6 solutions to open your PC in the next part. Scroll down to read the details.

How to unlock HP laptop without password

When you forget the HP laptop password, how can you unlock it? In this section, 6 methods will be shown. Let’s move on.

▶ Solution 1. Reset the password with CMD

To everyone’s surprise, CMD can not only manage your hard drive, but also reset the forgotten PC password. How to unlock HP laptop without password using Command Prompt? Here are the steps.

Step 1. In the HP laptop logging interface, press “Shift” and click “Restart” simultaneously. You’ll turn to the Windows recovery mode, click “Troubleshoot”.

Step 2. Then click “Advanced options” and “Command Prompt” in turn.

Step 3. In CMD, type “diskpart” and press “Enter” to open the Diskpart utility.

Step 4. Type “list volume” and hit “Enter”, you need to remember the system drive letter. Then input “exit” and press “Enter” to leave Diskpart.

Step 5. Input “move E:\windows\system32\utilman.exe E:\” and press “Enter”, moving the utilman.exe file to the original directory of the system drive.

Step 6. Then type “copy E:\windows\system32\cmd.exe E:\windows\system32\utilman.exe”, press “Enter” to copy the cmd.exe file to the target path.

Step 7. Input “wpeutil reboot” and press “Enter”.

Step 8. Click the human icon to open the CMD window, type net user password, then press “Enter”. Then you can unlock your HP laptop with the new setting password. 

▶ Solution 2. Reset the password with password reset disk

The password reset disk is a disk to help you when you lose the PC password, if you have created it before missing the password, you can directly reset the password with the password reset disk.

Step 1. Insert the prepared password reset disk, click “Reset password” in the unlocked interface.

Step 2. Click “Next” in the new window.

Step 3. Choose the key disk and click “Next”.

Step 4. In the new interface, you can set a new password and new password hint, then click “Next”.

Step 5. When the password is reset, click “Finish”.

 ▶ Solution 3. Run HP Recovery Manager

HP also provides the HP Recovery Manager for its users to deal with PC problems. The steps are as follows.

Step 1. Restart the HP laptop, when you see the logging-in interface, press “Shift” and hit “Restart” at the same time.

Step 2. Click “Troubleshoot” and “Recovery Manager” in turn to run the HP Recovery Manager, then select “System Recovery”.

Step 3. In the new window, click “Back up your Files first (recommended)” and click “Next”. Then choose the file types and the storage device, click “Next”.

PS.: If there’s not enough space on the disk, an external hard drive is required.

Step 4. Click “Continue” to continue the operation. When the system is recovered, you can unlock your HP laptop.

▶ Solution 4. Reset the HP laptop

Resetting the HP laptop can delete all data on it, including the forgotten password. So if you don’t matter the stored data, it can be a good choice. There’s the operation of factory resetting HP laptop without password.

Step 1. Press “Windows + I” to open the Windows settings, then click “System”, “Recovery” and “Reset PC” in turn. 

Step 2. Two options are provided: “Keep my files” or “Remove everything”, choose “Remove everything”.

Step 3. Follow the PC setting wizard carefully to reset the HP laptop, you may spend about 2 hours to do it.

 ▶ Solution 5. Create a Windows installation disk

If the HP laptop is purchased with a Windows installation disk, you can also unlock your HP laptop with it.

Step 1. Connect the installation disk to the HP laptop, then boot PC from it. When the Windows installing screen appears, press “Shift +F10” to turn to CMD.

Step 2. Type in “copy c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe c:\” and “copy c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe”, then press “Enter”. Turn out the installation disk, and run the“wpeutil reboot” command to reboot the PC.

Step 3. When you see the logging-in interface, press “Shift” for 5 times. The CMD window will pop out again, input “net user cocosenor *” and press “Enter”, then you’ll be asked to type a password for user, press “Enter” to set the password blank.

Step 4. Restart your HP laptop, you can see your PC can be unlocked without password.

 ▶ Solution 6. Unlock the laptop with a bootable USB

How to unlock HP laptop without password? Apart from the above methods, the AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional can help you remove/reset forgotten PC passwords. It supports devices on Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP.

After creating a bootable USB, you can reset/remove the HP laptop password on the Windows PE. Don’t worry about the complicated operations, because the user-friendly GUI and guidance will always stay with you.

If you want to manage your PC, this almighty tool can also provide you with advanced functions, including App Mover, Disk Clone Wizard, Migrate OS to SSD, etc.

Step 1. Connect a USB with another PC, download and open this software, select "Tools" and choose the “Reset Windows Password” function.

Step 2. You’ll create a bootable USB, click “Next”.

Step 3. Choose the USB boot device and click “Proceed”.

Step 4. Read the words about creating bootable USB in the popped window, and click “Yes”.

Step 5. Wait for a while, this utility takes some minutes to create the password reset USB, then click “Finish”.

Step 6. Take out the USB of the current PC, then insert it into your HP laptop, restart it. You need to change the boot drive, boot the PC from the created USB, then choose the OS and click “Next”.

Step 7. All accounts will be displayed, choose one and tick “Remove Account Password” or “Reset Account Password”, click “Next”.

Step 8. Choose“Reset Account Password”, then set the new password and then click “Yes”.  

Summary

How to unlock HP laptop without password? In this tutorial, you can get 6 methods to get into your locked HP laptop. As you can see, the AOMEI Partition Assistant can be the most convenient choice.

By the way, when you lose the PC password on Windows Server, you can turn to the Server Version for help.