TI 2016 wants a password to allow me to recover my computer??
Hi All,
I'm stuck. My Lenovo Flex 3 died, and was repaired under warranty. As expected it came back reimaged as a brand new machine, all my stuff wiped, as expected...
So - boot from my bootable media, find my latest backup on my 2 TB external drive, and start the restore. so far so good, then - It wants a password!!! WTF? I did not save this machine with a password. I've recovered another machine of mine with Acronis 2013, for example, in the past and did not need a password. I presume there must be a default password for TI 2016? it was not anything obvious like "admin" or "password", or the password on the Lenovo. I'm dead in the water - Office, MSProject, and others are not available until I recover the hard drive. I've tried all 3 versions of this machine's backup and all three want a password...
Can anyone help me figure out 1. why it wants a password; 2. more importantly - what is the password?
Thanks!
Greg


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Also where is the backup stored? If on a network share, you would need to enter network credentials to access the share. Those credentials would. E different than any local backup passwords you may have set and if none was set then I would suspect the password being requested is for the networks share.
If a password was set on the backup and was unintentional or just not remembered, you're out of luck. Might send a screenshot of the prompt to help identify what type of password it's looking for.
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