Windows 10 W10 password prob.

[anyname]

I have an old Lenovo Thinkpad x200 that is running w10.
For some reason it would not boot up one day.
I tried various things to get the laptop to boot that required the windows password to be entered.
I entered the password but was told the password was incorrect.
The password had been bypassed anyway previously using netplwiz.
I had cloned the that hdd and i fitted the cloned hdd and it booted up ok.
My question is, the first hdd rejected the login password that i had and was sure was correct as i had it written down.
Is there some way you can access what the password is?

 

[Ian]

That's very strange and I can't even imagine what the problem could be if the password didn't work, but it worked on a cloned drive. I'm glad you've got a fix in place though.

I don't think there is a practical way to view passwords like that in Windows 10, as they've massively overhauled credential management.

 

[anyname]

Thank you for your reply Ian.