I have a gateway m305cvr laptop and is asking for a password i dont remember

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If u can, try to reformat it, reason i say this simple solution is because u already had the laptop looked at professionally, and due to you're laptop being stuck at the windows screen, i see this happen on HDD swaps a lot. The HDD needs to be repair-formatted or fully reformatted to talk to the new mobo when switched out, try this if all else fails, i personally think giving this simple solution may fix the boot up issue, but do make sure ur friend who looked at your laptop hadn't reset ur C MOS and may of not reconfigured it, this may also be the main cause of boot up troubles so make sure everything looks fine in ur BIOS. Gabriel will have a more proper solution than this but i believe by doing this it may help u bypass ur loading issue

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1. Refresh the screen: Right-click on the desktop and select [refresh]
The icons will appear.

if not,
Boot to the Safe Mode screen and select "Start in Last Known Good Setting"

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Simplest is to remove the battery for a while so the password is lost.
See the TechRepublic article at
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-1032878.html

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If you are running Windows XP Home, you can boot into safe mode, and then reset the password on the user account you are locked out of.

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