acer aspire 3100...yes, it's old and slow. However. I need to restore back to factory settings

slnj
slnj Member Posts: 2 New User

I need to restore back to factory settings but it wants a password. Even with the password hint, I just can't remember. Where is that info on this computer? I know it's there somewhere for the memory challenged folks.

Thanks in advance (and I'm sure this isn't the correct place to ask this!)

Answers

  • laurent_14
    laurent_14 ACE Posts: 10,019 Trailblazer

    Hello,

     

    The default password to restore from the hidden partition is 6 zeros 000000 (Windows Vista).

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  • slnj
    slnj Member Posts: 2 New User

    Thanks for your help. This one has xp on it, the zeroes didn't work. Didn't seem to have a limit on the tries, so I tried every password I could think of, finally found the one that worked.

    Thanks again for your help!