For some reason, a Dell Windows 7 Pro laptop 'forgot' its password. I took the hard drive out and recovered the data to an external hard drive and a DVD. I had to connect this laptop hard drive to one of my desktop computers to do that.
I tried a system restore back from the boot menu, but that didn't work either. So, I tried to reinstall Windows 7 Pro by using my DVD. Didn't work.
Next, I used a Dell Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit DVD to install the OS successfully. I then got the driver for the network and downloaded the Dell utility to create restore disks. That process is going on right now. I hope to use the restore disks to make the hard drive 'factory fresh' with Windows 7 Pro again.
This is why one must not use an administrator account to do daily work. If this password was corrupted on a standard user, the problem could have been easily fixed by using the admin account to reset the password of the standard account.
Instead, this is turning into a multi-hour saga ...
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