From: mariasophia@comprehension.com   
      
   knuttle wrote:   
   > We could not get pass the login password on my Brother in laws computer,   
   > so we removed the drive. (Long irrelevant story)   
      
   Hi Keith,   
      
   Maybe I'm missing something because, essentially, a drive is a drive.   
   It doesn't matter if that drive was previously used for something.   
      
   Unless it's encrypted, isn't any drive easily re-formatted & re-used?   
   Even if it's encrypted, isn't it easily formatted so it's a new drive?   
      
   I don't see what the problem is, unless you want to log in as the user.   
   Only in that case, would it not work (unless you remove the password).   
      
   The entire PC will still work with the old operating system version   
   because Windows doesn't tie itself to a drive but to the other hardware.   
      
   I just did this yesterday because I smashed the drive pins on the boot   
   drive trying to stuff a new power supply with lots more cables in the box.   
      
   So I just took another drive, and loaded Windows 10 on it.   
   When it asked for a NEW password I gave it a new password.   
      
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