Hello,
usually I'm a ghost user, meaning that I only watch without even registering on forums, what made me change this was a huge problem on Windows 10 that is keeping me out of my daily routine.
I would like to apologize in advance for any english mistakes that you may see, I'm being forced to use my smartphone which keep changing words that I write for similar words in my native language.
That being said, I will first tell my problem story, putting in bold how the actual problem started, then I'll make a list of what I did to try to fix it (it may help someone else, as well as it may help me).
THE PROBLEMI had the original Windows 7, never had trouble fixing what rarely went wrong on my OS, I was happy with Win7 but I decided to give Win10 a shot, I then saved my files on a external SD, formated my PC with the Win7 disc and installed Win10 with the download from Microsoft website.
I was lucky as hell, since for what I think was a coincidence, both my external SD and my DVD reader stopped working as soon as everything was in place on my recently installed Win10, all my files, games, images... I even updated with Windows Update.
I went on vacation, and when I was back, one month later, I decided to upgrade Win10 again since I like to have everything up to date. Even if this is not what caused the problem, this is what lead me to changing what I should not... As I said, I decided to upgrade Win10 to what I THINK was build 1511 (I may be wrong, but it is what I remember seeing on Windows Update), it failed, and after a few times trying to fix Windows Update, I did what I regret (actual problem starts now):
I read some threads on the official Microsoft forums that people (lots of them) with the same Windows Update problem as me had managed to fix it by linking their Microsoft account with their Windows 10, so I did the same, just to find out it would not fix my problem... I gave up on Windows Update after a few more tries on other methods.
Some days later, after turning on and off, logging in and out of Win as usual, I tried to log in with my Microsoft account as always, and it said the password was wrong, after a few tries with different passwords I tried to log in on my Microsoft account trough my smartphone, it worked as it should, but my Win10 still don't let me in telling me that I typed the wrong password.
- I can't use my disc reader to format, as I told you before
- The only USB storage I had to use to format is also gone
- There is some really important files on that PC that I can't let go
- Basically, I can only use my smartphone, my PC BIOS or anything that I already told here.
TOO LONG. DIDN'T READ? Help me, I'm in a ducking despair.
usually I'm a ghost user, meaning that I only watch without even registering on forums, what made me change this was a huge problem on Windows 10 that is keeping me out of my daily routine.
I would like to apologize in advance for any english mistakes that you may see, I'm being forced to use my smartphone which keep changing words that I write for similar words in my native language.
That being said, I will first tell my problem story, putting in bold how the actual problem started, then I'll make a list of what I did to try to fix it (it may help someone else, as well as it may help me).
THE PROBLEM
I was lucky as hell, since for what I think was a coincidence, both my external SD and my DVD reader stopped working as soon as everything was in place on my recently installed Win10, all my files, games, images... I even updated with Windows Update.
I went on vacation, and when I was back, one month later, I decided to upgrade Win10 again since I like to have everything up to date. Even if this is not what caused the problem, this is what lead me to changing what I should not... As I said, I decided to upgrade Win10 to what I THINK was build 1511 (I may be wrong, but it is what I remember seeing on Windows Update), it failed, and after a few times trying to fix Windows Update, I did what I regret (actual problem starts now):
I read some threads on the official Microsoft forums that people (lots of them) with the same Windows Update problem as me had managed to fix it by linking their Microsoft account with their Windows 10, so I did the same, just to find out it would not fix my problem... I gave up on Windows Update after a few more tries on other methods.
Some days later, after turning on and off, logging in and out of Win as usual, I tried to log in with my Microsoft account as always, and it said the password was wrong, after a few tries with different passwords I tried to log in on my Microsoft account trough my smartphone, it worked as it should, but my Win10 still don't let me in telling me that I typed the wrong password.
WHAT I TRIED
- Using screen keyboard
- Trying old passwords
- Changing my Microsoft's password
- Using ASCII to type the password
- Trying different passwords with AND without capital letters, numbers and symbols
- Basically tried every KIND of password I could have user
- Changing my Microsoft's password (again, 7 times actually)
- Turning off computer power cable
- Turning off and on and off and on and off internet cable
- Changing password language
- Tried clicking on "This is not me" and/or "Login with other account"... Except I do not have this options, so I couldn't try it.
- Literally everything that I could fins online in literally 18 hours of despair and research
- I can't use my disc reader to format, as I told you before
- The only USB storage I had to use to format is also gone
- There is some really important files on that PC that I can't let go
- Basically, I can only use my smartphone, my PC BIOS or anything that I already told here.
TOO LONG. DIDN'T READ? Help me, I'm in a ducking despair.
