My copy of XP home ed. crashed and burned irecoverably. I loaded another
copy of XP onto the same partion so I could get at the original to try to
repair it. Using the recovery disk supplied with the computer I get as far
as the repair console (after typing R) but then it asks for the Admin
password. I have never put a password on the machine and according to the
suppliers of the computer it's a Msoft password which they don't actually
know. They suggested I try things like 111,999,000, or 4 spaces, which I
did but none work. Does anyone have any idea how I can get past this
problem? I am trying to repair the original XP installation with the
original recovery disk, which ought to be possible. The new copy of XP
keeps asking me to activate it, but when I try over the net it tells me I
don't have a net connection! I'd sooner dump the new copy and repair the
old one if possible.

TIA

D

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when creating the installation image or during a manual install. Its
normally left blank but some makers deliberately set a p/w to stop their
customers from altering some system settings. If blank p/w does not work
then you need to contact the manufacturer of the PC.

Have you tried reinstalling it on the existing partition?
You may have to boot from a floppy and save your data to another partition
and do a clean install.

To avoid this in the future:
Create a partition for the OS (XP in this case) 3-6GB
Create a partition(s) for all your data

Now you can reformat and install a fresh copy of the OS without losing
your data.

I did, it was them that told me M$ set the admin password!

Yes, that was one of the things I tried.. There are no boxes, btw, just an
input line asking for the Admin password.

OK. I have boxes here, how many do you need?

"?" <reply@newsgroup.ok> wrote

Hi,

See if this Microsoft KB article will help:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

Alan

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"?" <reply@newsgroup.ok> wrote in
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Hi

Could you please include some of the message you are responding to,
in your reply?
(Tools> Options> Send tab, tick the "Include message in Reply" box.)

It makes it difficult to follow a thread when you write a reply and
others have no clue on what the question or discussion was about.

Further info:
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html
http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting.html

Thank You Very Much :-)

Thanks, Whoareyou, this looks promising. Seems it's an identified M$
problem. I will be trying it later on so wish me luck!
It also states the opposite of what my computer maker told me, the Admin
password *is* the same one as used normally, it's just that it doesn't work
in some circumstances. I'll let you know what happened!

Thanks again

D



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Howdy!

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An IBM Thinkpad? Yah, there were several vendors that didn't put an
admin password in - and used a beta copy of the Pre Installation Kit - which
generated a "random" password. Snerk.

Google for "NTFS Password Reset" and find how to reset that
password.

Oh - here's the FUN part. You can't reset it from Windows XP Home
without logging on as Admin - and you can't log on as Admin unless you're in
Safe mode!

Genius, I tell you. Pure genius. There's no way that could be an
accidental screwup - someone HAS to hate Microsoft users to screw them over
that way!

RwP

Well, at least I was able to get past the password for the first time! I
made a new set of startup disks from the M$ site as instructed and used
those instead of my system recovery disk. problem is now it won't let me
use that copy of windows til it's been "acivated", easy peasy, it's a legal
copy and all but Windows insists i don't have an internet connection and
won't let me get to the on-line activation......if it's not one thing it's
another!

Thank you all for the help, I'd have been really stuck without you

D
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