Hp pavillion tx1000

Hi, I'm hoping for some advice please.
My step dad aquired a HP Pavilion TX1000 laptop a while back - it was thrown away, where he works, and he kept it. He has since bought a charger for it and it powers up, the start screen appears but it's password protected so we obviously can't go any further.
Is it possible to recover it back to factory settings?  Will that remove the previous owners password and accounts?
Can I do that through the bios as I don't physically have recovery disk for that laptop?
Would a recovery disk for another HP laptop work? 
Sorry for all the questions, I don't know what to do. 
Thanks. 
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Hi,
The machine will have originally has a recovery partition on the HDD.  If that's still intact, you can access it as follows - this will remove all previous Windows accounts and the associated passwords.
Shutdown the notebook.
Tap away at the f11 key as soon as you power on and see if this launches Recovery Manager - a full description can be found on the link below under 'Starting a recovery from the hard drive and the computer is off'.
http://support.hp.com/gb-en/document/c00809678
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