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How to Create a Windows 7 Password Reset Disk?


Creating Windows 7 password reset disk is a compulsory thing for each Windows 7 PC user. With it, you will never be in trouble when lost or forgot Windows 7 password for you can login your lovely Windows 7 again within seconds.

What's more, if you do not have access to the password of the system, you can easily re-log with it in few seconds. What you need to do is pretty simple, recovering the Windows 7 login password with the professional Windows Password Reset software. However, by this means it will cost money and time. In this case, creating a Windows 7 password reset disk will be the first choice for you to reset Windows 7 Password.

Please follow the bellowing Step by step tutorial to create a Windows 7 password reset disk.


Step 1: Click the 'Start' button and then click the 'Control Panel' in your Windows 7.

How to Create a Windows 7 Password Reset Disk?

Step 2: Click on the 'User Accounts and Family Safety' link.


Note: If you're viewing the Large icons or Small icon views instead of the Category view, you can just double-click on the 'User Accounts' icon and proceed to Step 3.

1>The picture for Large icons

2>The picture for Small icons

Step3: Click on the 'User Account' link.

Step 4: Click the 'Create a password reset disk' link in the task pane on the left.

Note: Please make sure you have connected some portable media for this password reset disk like a flash drive, a blank USB flash drive, otherwise you will get a No Drive warning message! Besides, Windows 7 doesn't support creating a password reset disk with a CD/DVD or external hard drive.

Step 5: Click on the 'Next' button when the forgotten Password Wizard window appears.

Step 6: Choose the portable media drive through the drop down box to create a Windows 7 reset disk on. And then click 'Next' to continue.

Step 7: Keeping the disk or USB flash drive in drive, entering your current account password into the text box. If the account doesn't have a password, just leave the box blank. And then click 'Next' to continue.

Step 8: Windows 7 will create the password reset disk on your disk or USB flash drive. When the progresses finished and showing 100% complete, click 'Next'.

Step 9: Click 'Finish' and remove the flash drive from your computer. Now you have successfully created a Windows 7 password reset disk for the user account. You had better label the disk "Windows 7 Password Reset disk" and store it in a safe and privacy place.

Note: Keep in mind that you can only use this Windows 7 password reset disk on your own Windows 7 machine. Furthermore, you only need to create a Windows 7 password reset disk for your Windows 7 login password once, for no matter how many times you change your password, this disk will always allow you to create a new one.


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