Solved Boot laptop from CD

[sam49]

Hi i dont know if this post is in the correct place but i need advice please

I have been given a Acer aspire 5734Z laptop running windows 7 the problem i have is the person that gave me the laptop has forgot the password

I have tried to boot from a bootable USB and cd but what ever settings i have in the bios it still boot to ther hard drive

I have attached a screenshot of the bios but can someone tell me what to do next

 

[samuria]

You need to make sure the CD works and boots on another pc is this a modern system that may have secure boot set as that may stop it

 

[XweAponX]

Hi i dont know if this post is in the correct place but i need advice please

I have been given a Acer aspire 5734Z laptop running windows 7 the problem i have is the person that gave me the laptop has forgot the password

I have tried to boot from a bootable USB and cd but what ever settings i have in the bios it still boot to ther hard drive

I have attached a screenshot of the bios but can someone tell me what to do next

Move the item at IDE1 to the very top: HL-DT-STDVDRAM, that should be the first item. THEN the USB Items, THEN the HDD of the system. Once you have your Physical (not USB) Optical Device selected as first boot item, your system will automatically boot to that medium. If it is a Windows 7 Installer, you will see "Press any key to boot from disk" - However, you don't really need to wipe the device:

Use Hiren's Boot CD (googol it) to unlock the password, there is a Windows NT/2k/XP/Vista/7/8 Offline Password utility that even works on Windows 10 to some extent (except on accounts that are dependent upon your Microsoft account for Login).

Also always check with your Device manufacturer's website for boot order instructions, this was pretty easy to find, but it may or may not work with your exact device:

Changing Boot order

 

[sam49]

Move the item at IDE1 to the very top: HL-DT-STDVDRAM, that should be the first item. THEN the USB Items, THEN the HDD of the system. Once you have your Physical (not USB) Optical Device selected as first boot item, your system will automatically boot to that medium. If it is a Windows 7 Installer, you will see "Press any key to boot from disk" - However, you don't really need to wipe the device:

Use Hiren's Boot CD (googol it) to unlock the password, there is a Windows NT/2k/XP/Vista/7/8 Offline Password utility that even works on Windows 10 to some extent (except on accounts that are dependent upon your Microsoft account for Login).

Also always check with your Device manufacturer's website for boot order instructions, this was pretty easy to find, but it may or may not work with your exact device:

Changing Boot order

Thank you followed the advice and it worked just fine

Thanks again

 

[XweAponX]

Thank you followed the advice and it worked just fine

Thanks again

No Problem, I've had to deal with this hundreds of times, so I knew exactly what it was. Sometimes a particular system will not be as friendly to users who want to change boot order items, especially on newer systems, but in your case it was one of the easy ones.