A password disk is special kind of disk you can create that allows you instant access to your Windows account in the way-too-often situation that you forget your highly complicated password that you created hoping to fend of hackers. Of course you run in to problems when you've kept the password from yourself!
This sounds like a great thing to have but here's the catch - you have to create the password disk before you forget your password. In other words - do it today! Follow these easy steps to create a Windows Vista password reset disk and save yourself a huge headache in the future.
I have a Dell Dimension E520 with Vista installed. When I try to create the password reset disk, it only recognizes the USB drives, not the 2 cd/dvd drives. As I’ve read in other posts, in Windows Vista forums, if one creates it in a USB, then copies it to a cd, Vista won’t recognize it. I don’t want to waste a flash drive just for this. I don’t know if this is a Dell or Vista problem.
I’ve got the exact problem as stated in the previous user’s comment. Can anybody help?
David (and Lou) – I don’t think it’s a “problem” at all. It doesn’t appear as though Vista will let you use anything BUT a USB drive or a floppy disk.
The USB drive won’t go to waste though. You can use it for other things, you just need to keep the files that Vista creates intact.
I’ve seen 2GB flash drives for $7 and by the time I post this, the price has probably dropped. In other words, they’re very cheap if you do end up using one for this purpose only.
is there a special kind of a usb flash drive we need to this? most of the flas drives i used is not recognized. It states there, your usb flas drive is not a password reset disc/drive. try again.
how can i fing that special usb drive then?
@ace: That looks like the message you get when you try to actually USE a USB drive that was never configured as a password reset disk. Are you trying to get in to your PC right now or are you creating a password reset disk and getting this message during that process?