Problem with administrator password

[Guest]

I cannot boot my Windows XP home edition. Got this message: Windows XP
cannot start because the following file is missing or
corrupt:\windows\system32\config\system. When I use the windows startup disk
and enter the recovery console, I am stopped by a request for the
administrator's password. I have read the other postings re this being the
builtin password and I saw the postings for the software to help defeat a
missing password problem. Since the computer will not boot I cannot go into
SafeMode. Without the startup disk the computer just cycles on and off with
a flash of a screen with writing but I cannot read that fast.

Any thoughts on how to proceed, short of reinstalling Windows, would be very
welcome.

 

[Meinolf Weber]

Hello Bill,

Check out this one:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306038

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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[Meinolf Weber]

Hello Bill,

Also you can change this settings/files with a BartPe disk or Knoppix. Did
it very often and helps always without reinstalling.

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Meinolf Weber
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Bill M
Thanks for your time and help.

Hello Bill,

Check out this one:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306038

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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Meinolf,

Appreciate your reply but the procedures require the Administrator's
password which I do not have. I am also running XP, but the article was
interesting.

Thanks,

Bill

 

[Guest]

Meinoff,
Again thanks for the reply. You have the best of me. I do not know what a
BartPe disk is nor am I familiar with Knoppix. Can you point me in the
correct direction so I can learn some more?

Thanks,
Bill

 

[Meinolf Weber]

Hello Bill,

Bartpe for example is a disk to boot from usb or cd/dvd and access the harddrive.
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

Also you can use NTFSDOS to access the harddisk from commandline tool:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/NTFSDOS-Professional.shtml

Maybe you have to boot from win98 startdisk and then start ntfsdos. Did it
also some years ago and works.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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