Seeing how the links you provided are for flash drives and as I mentioned I don't have one that has more than one gig, I need to use DVDs. Question is are there special instructions for making the...

Hi, newbie here, I have been locked out of my admin account (long story, created a random LIVE username/password to try a feature, turns out I was changing my system's admin pass and username w/...

Right, that makes sense. I had assumed the only way I could recover my files was to have a Windows 10 installation DVD (as I mentioned I run W10 but have only W7 installation because I bought my pc...

One more question, is the Windows version in the first link (Win14393PESE_x64 ISO v170116) is that the same as the one in the second link? (Access Denied)

The issue was that I originally went to...

No, no USB flash drive, just the dvd created. I don't have a flash drive or rather not big enough, it's one gig

Thanks NavyLCDR. I've downloaded the iso and will burn it later tonight. I'm just confused about your quote that you referred me to, quite a few things I don't understand there. Because as I...

@NavyLCDR, thank you for that detailed response. I probably have to use DVD-R because I do have flash drive but its size is one gig only.

Anyhow, I'm looking at the second link, the bootable...

Thanks for the replies. I'm going through them one by one and trying the suggestions.
Kari: Thank you but that method does not work. As I mentioned, I made up a random email but perhaps it's...

Hi, I have W10 (originally W7). Bought this laptop new from DELL several years ago. Not under warranty now. Don't have a second computer. Tight financially also. I have gone through a very stressful...