Help, Laptop won't start!!

grumpycrab

Sea_Shell said: now to remember usernames and passwords!?!   -  I remembered them for here, so that's a start.

Use a password manager from now on.

Sea_Shell

J_B said:

Well done, glad you got is sorted at a price you considered reasonable - would you care to share the £££, or not!   

Well, it was less than half the cost of a "new" refurbished machine with an equivalent 480GB SSD.

Sea_Shell

Am I also right in thinking that the only reason to password protect the laptop at log-in is to prevent casual reading from other household members or nosy family???

Obviously as the professional, with the right software, can just get into your hard drive anyway!!

grumpycrab

Sea_Shell said:

Well, it was less than half the cost of a "new" refurbished machine with an equivalent 480GB SSD.

Looks like that includes a reasonable charge for data recovery.  Don't think you can complain about that - some will charge much more.  Also good to know a good local computer shop.

HereToday

Sea_Shell said:

Am I also right in thinking that the only reason to password protect the laptop at log-in is to prevent casual reading from other household members or nosy family???

Obviously as the professional, with the right software, can just get into your hard drive anyway!!

There are other ways if you really want to prevent entry; like encrypting the disk, so that even if someone removed the HDD and placed it in a caddy, they would not be able to access the content.