Forgotten Administrator LogIn

Hi All,
I have a g6 company laptop which was issued to an employee who has since left our firm. We cannot login as Administrator as we do not have his password.
As we all parted on good terms, when we asked for the PW, he could not remember it - but texted to me 4 possibilities - all 4 were not correct.
Any ideas or options, or is this laptop (not even a scratch on it) just junk?

Hi:
Did you try to recover the notebook to factory specs by using the F11 key method of restoring the notebook?
See this guide below for how do do that:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&dlc=en&docname=c03489643&lc=en&jumpid=reg_r1002_us...

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