My partner has an old work computer she has personal files on. She has been using a new laptop for some time and seems to have forgotten her password to the desktop, or it just won't connect to the work network. Their IT can't see it on the network so she would have to take it in (which won't be possible for some time). The irony is that she is desperate to leave but all of her up to date CV and portfolio stuff is on there -_-
I have tried various methods:
- When I plug it into another pc it doesn't show in explorer (but it is there in device manager), even when booting it to command prompt and trying it.
- Pressing windows button + r at the login screen doesn't do anything.
- I can get to the recovery screen but trying to do anything asks for an admin password and doesn't give me any other options.
- I have a bootable USB plugged in but I don't know how I could even get into the bios to boot from it as it doesn't currently do so. This is assuming it can, but i'd imagine booting from cd/dvd wouldn't be enabled if everything else is disabled.
I'm not sure why I can't even see it when it is plugged into another machine, I would have thought encryption would just block me from accessing it. I miss Windows 7!
Anyway, does anyone know how I could gain access to the files on the desktop?
Thanks
