How to Reset Sony Vaio Laptop Password for Windows 8 – 2 ways

This article is about how to reset Sony Vaio Laptop Password for Windows 8.

“I forgot the password on my Sony Vaio laptop with Windows 8 installed, what are my options?”

You can perform a password reset (the best solution), a factory reset or a system reset (only as a last resort). As a factory reset or system installation may delete your personal data when deleting a forgotten password, it is not recommended to do this.

Fortunately, resetting the password on a computer / laptop will not be a difficult task.

A password reset disk may be the first option. Now we show how to reset Sony Vaio laptop password for Windows 8.

How to Reset Sony Vaio Laptop Password for Windows 8

• Method 1: In a normal password recovery disk
• Method 2: With a bootable password recovery disk

Method 1: Reset Sony Vaio laptop password on normal recovery disk

A common password reset disk is created for the local Windows 8 user account on your Sony Vaio laptop.

Just insert the disc into your laptop and click the Reset Password link shown below the password text box on the Windows 8 login screen and follow the password reset wizard to reset the password.

Click the Reset Password link and follow the wizard

Method 2: Reset Sony Vaio Laptop password with bootable recovery disk

It doesn’t matter even if you forgot your Windows 8 password and you don’t have the original recovery disk on your Sony Vaio laptop.

You can create a password bootable recovery disk using another computer. Then boot your locked Sony Vaio laptop with a disk to reset the forgotten Windows 8 password.

Step 1: Create a bootable password reset disk on another computer

This requires another computer with processing power and Internet access, as well as removable devices such as USB media or CD/DVD drives.

On another computer, open the browser and go to download and install the third party Windows Password Refixer program.

This requires administrative permission.

Open this program.

Choose the media type based on whether you have a USB device or a CD/DVD drive.

Choose a media type

Insert your media into the computer, select a media name from the drop-down list, and click Start Burning.
Select the drive name and click Start Burning

It forces you to format the drive. Click Yes to confirm.
Format the disk

Then the lighting system starts immediately and stops quickly.

A successful flash means that you have successfully created a bootable password reset disk.

Step 2: Forget boot password on Sony Vaio laptop from boot disk

Connect the password reset disk you created on another computer earlier to your forgotten password Sony Vaio laptop.

Start/reboot the phone and go to its BIOS settings to configure the laptop to boot from USB or CD-ROM.
In the boot process, you will see Windows PE loading.

Step 3: Reset forgotten Windows 8 password on Sony Vaio laptop

Once the laptop boots, you will notice that a blue screen appears and then the Windows Password Refixer screen appears.

It loads Windows 8 installed on your Sony Vaio laptop and displays a list of all local and Microsoft accounts in Windows 8.

Select the user account whose password is forgotten.
Click the Reset Password button.

Reset Windows 8 password on Sony Vaio Laptop

It will keep the user password blank.
Reset password to blank

After the password is reset, click Restart to restart the Sony Vaio laptop. Remove bootable password reset media.
Then, the Sony Vaio laptop will restart properly and Windows 8 will enter automatically without a password required.