If someone was trying to guess your password and wiped everything is there a way to get it back?

My friend was trying to guess my password while I was away and I think he wiped everything doing so.

Hello @LuisMoreno12 ,
Welcome to the HP Forums!
I understand your content is missing after a friend attempted to guess your notebooks password.
There is no feature in Windows that would do this automatically. There are options to lock the system after too many failed attempts but nothing that would completely wipe your system without using third party software.
Do you see any messages that indicate you are logging in to a temporary profile? Can you also tell me which version of Windows you are using? To see which version of Windows you are using click here: Which Windows operating system am I running?
The only thing I could suggest would be to contact someone who specializes in data recovery in hopes that the information is still on your HDD. It sounds like your friend may have accessed the recovery manager and reinstalled Windows to get around the password. If this is the case some of the information should still be on the hard drive assuming it was not formatted during the reinstall.
I think it's in your best interest to get as much information as possible from your friend to try and figure out exactly what was done to your notebook.
Let me know if you have any more questions.
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