Default password for recovery console?

[Guest]

Hi
I have an installation of windows XP pro. that crashed due to CryptSrv (rsaenh.dll and dssenh.dll). I have'nt specified a password yet, so I assume the recovery console must have a default, since it rejects "blank"

Philip

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi,
I have an installation of windows XP pro. that crashed due to CryptSrv

(rsaenh.dll and dssenh.dll). I have'nt specified a password yet, so I assume
the recovery console must have a default, since it rejects "blank".

Philip

The recovery console does not have a default password. It requires the
password that you specified when you first loaded Windows XP Pro.

 

[Guest]

-- The recovery console does not have a default password. It requires th
-- password that you specified when you first loaded Windows XP Pro

I feared that was the answer :-
The strange part is the first time I run the recovery-console, I can log on using a "blank" password. This is where I chkdsk/disable the services I thought were crashing the installation. After I restart the computer and let the setup resume, I guess the password is a random garbled password, since "blank" is no longer enough

Phili

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

-- The recovery console does not have a default password. It requires the
-- password that you specified when you first loaded Windows XP Pro.

I feared that was the answer
The strange part is the first time I run the recovery-console, I can log

on using a "blank" password. This is where I chkdsk/disable the services I
thought were crashing the installation. After I restart the computer and let
the setup resume, I guess the password is a random garbled password, since
"blank" is no longer enough.

Philip

Reset it with this boot disk:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html