administrator password when repairing XP

[Guest]

I had a hard disk problem, afterwards the file windows/system32/config/system
was corrupted and I had to reinstall and repair XP Home. At a certain moment
I got stuck because XP keeps asking me the administrator password (which I
never defined) in order to finish the job. Blank is not valid. I tried to
look in the setupact.log but no reference to password changes.

 

[peter]

have you tried "tab" a few times??
peter

 

[GreenieLeBrun]

I had a hard disk problem, afterwards the file
windows/system32/config/system was corrupted and I had to reinstall
and repair XP Home. At a certain moment I got stuck because XP keeps
asking me the administrator password (which I never defined) in order
to finish the job. Blank is not valid. I tried to look in the
setupact.log but no reference to password changes.

Go to http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ . There you will find
zip files that will let you create boot floppy disks or bootable CDs
that will enable you to reset any system password on an NT class
operating system (Win2000, XP and Vista are all NT class operating system).