User ID & Password

[MegaBite]

Have a Gateway Tablet Laptop. It has suddenly started asking for a User ID
and Password to login to Windows XP. The word "Owner" appears in the User ID
slot.

Never set this up & it rejects all password. Completely locked out of system.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

 

[Andrew E.]

Usually pressing the "enter key" will work if no password was created.
Otherwise,tap the F8 key on pc start,select safe-mode,enter xp as
administrator,
in xp,open user accounts & edit xp start.

 

[MegaBite]

Usually pressing the "enter key" will work if no password was created.
Otherwise,tap the F8 key on pc start,select safe-mode,enter xp as
administrator,
in xp,open user accounts & edit xp start.

"MegaBite" wrote:

Booted up in Safe Mode. Still asks for the "Owner" login. No entries for
the Password, including a blank entry, wosrk. Still locked out.

Ran a virus scan from a bootable Symntec anti-virus disk.

Started to re-install XP, but system says it cannot find the hard drive, yet
system will boot into Safe Mode. Sounds like boot track is corrupted, but
can it be corrected?