How to Reset Windows 10 Admin Password without Disk

When forgot Windows 10 password, the most popular way to reset forgotten user password in Windows 10 is using a working admin account. However, if you lost password to the only administrator account, how can you reset or recover it?

This article will show you three other ways to safely reset forgotten Windows 10 admin password with or without disk. Detailed steps are given bellow.

Tip 1: Reset Windows 10 Local Admin Password with Free Password Reset Disk.

When you created a password for your Windows 10 local admin account, it is necessary to create a free password reset disk just in Control Panel. When you forget your password in future, this is an easy and fast way to reset your Windows 10 admin password without data loss.

If you have previously created a Windows 10 password reset disk, now you can use it to open password reset wizard in login screen and reset your forgotten Windows 10 admin password easily without knowing it.

1.       After entered a wrong password to sign in your user account in Windows 10, Windows will give you a link to reset your password. Insert your password reset disk and then open the link.

2.       “Password Reset Wizard” is open, click “Next”.

3.       Pull down the drive list and select your password reset disk, then click “Next”.

4.       Choose a new password for your user account and then click “Next”.

5.       Click “Finish” to complete password reset and then you can log into Windows 10 with the new password.

Tip 2: Reset Windows 10 Admin Password without Disk.

In Windows 10 1803 and beyond versions, Microsoft provides a safe way to reset Windows 10 password that you just need to answer the security questions and then you can set a brand new password for your Windows 10 user account without knowing the old password. Note that it requires you to create the security questions before you lost your password. Now let’s see how to use it to reset Windows 10 admin password without disk such as CD, DVD or USB.

1.       Start Windows 10, after you entered a wrong password, Windows will give you a link to reset your password. Click on the link.

2.       Security questions you created will be shown under the user account. Give your answers to the security questions and then click “Submit”.

3.       Type a new password in the box and type it again to confirm. Then click “Submit”. The old password will be replaced with the new one. Now you can use the new password to log on your user account.

Tip 3: Reset Windows 10 Admin Password with USB Disk.

If you have forgotten your Windows 10 admin password and you don’t have a password reset disk or have not created security questions for your admin account, you will need to use a third-party program to help reset the forgotten password. Here I will show you how to use Windows Password Rescuer Personal to reset forgotten Windows 10 administrator or user password with a USB flash drive. It is easy and working perfectly for Windows 10, 8.1, 7, Vista, XP.

1.       Log on another computer as administrator, free download Windows Password Rescuer Personal and then install the program on the computer.

2.       Once you finish installation, insert a blank USB flash drive and launch the software. Choose “USB device” on the software. 

3. Next, select your USB from drive list and then click “Begin Burning” to create a Windows password recovery disk.

3.       Once burning completed, connect the USB disk to your locked computer. Set the computer to boot from USB.

4.       When the computer successfully boots from USB, Windows Password Rescuer will run automatically and show you a friendly interface. All Windows 10 local user accounts will be displayed in list.

5.       Click “Administrator” from list.

6.       Click “Reset Password”, when a confirm message pops up, click “yes”.

7.       The administrator password will be reset to blank.

8.       Click “Reboot”, when a confirm message pops up, remove your Windows password recovery disk and then click “Yes” to restart PC.

9.       After that, you can log into Windows 10 as administrator without any password.

This is currently the best Windows password recovery tool which also works for any brand of computer such as Dell, HP, ASUS, TOSHIBA, Lenovo etc. If you want to use it to reset forgotten Windows domain admin password, you must do this on your server computer which is domain controller.