FreeBSD on HP 2 in 1 laptop

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balanga

I have an HP 2 in 1 laptop which has Windows 10 installed but the password given does not seem to be correct. After doing some reading I thought I may be able to boot up FreeBSD from a USB stick and run chntpw and change the password, unfortunately I can't get FreeBSD (even 12.1) to boot. I also tried NomadBSD and that wouldn't work either. Has anyone had any success with FreeBSD on one of these systems?

I did manage to boot Lubuntu and got access to the Windows disk. but the filesystem was described as read only.

I have a feeing that I may be able to get FreeBSD to boot by changing a UART setting as in Thread 57321

Any comments?
 
The first thing I would try is one of the utilities that actually create a bootable ISO. They usually boot straight into a simple interface that searches for Windows password databases, list the users and lets you clear or reset passwords.
 
The problem is knowing which to choose. There see to be so many. I booted up Lubuntu and that was able to access the Windows partition but it had read-only access, and I don't know how to change that. I'm more comfortable with FreeBSD, but it looks like it will take a good while to figure out what needs to be done to make it boot. By all accounts I should be able to do this from FreeBSD by running chntpw in the Windows/System32/config directory, but can't get FreeBSD to boot so far.
 
I don't recommend this unless you have a good idea of what its doing or what you're doing (that being my disclaimer), you could try booting that live linux, gparted create a gpt ntfs usb stick, while waiting for a windows 10 install iso to download, then create a uefi boot/install and use that to either fix it, or reinstall windows 10.

mount iso and copy its content onto the usb stick.

windows 10 keeps the keys on there server , i am not sure about new factory installs but i've not entered a product key in many install of windows 10
 
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