Defualt Admin password?

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HotRod

I have just done a complete recovery of my Acer Notebook but there seems to
be problems with it so I thought I'd try to repair the problem with a
Windows XP Recovery Console but it wants the administrator password. Since I
just did a complete re-install the old password isn't working any idea what
the default password might be? Leaving it blank doesn't work...
 
Does the passwork log you in as a local admin on a normal start ctl+alt+del.
xp pro. safe mode administrator xp home.
 
HotRod said:
I have just done a complete recovery of my Acer Notebook but there seems to
be problems with it so I thought I'd try to repair the problem with a
Windows XP Recovery Console but it wants the administrator password. Since I
just did a complete re-install the old password isn't working any idea what
the default password might be? Leaving it blank doesn't work...
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Try this:

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Good luck and please post back with results.

Steve N.
 
hey hotrod,
the new administrator password would be the one that you entered during
setup while performing the reinstall.

yogi
 
Unfortunately when I used the recovery CDs there was not a prompt to set the
password. Using Steve's link I used the password remover CD only to discover
that the administrator password was blank. I needed to set a password with
the "remover" instead of deleting one. Sometimes common sense just doesn't
work, why the heck would the recovery console not work with a blank
password??? Now that I have the recovery console it still isn't working but
that another problem. I keep getting the command prompt.
 
HotRod said:
Unfortunately when I used the recovery CDs there was not a prompt to set the
password. Using Steve's link I used the password remover CD only to discover
that the administrator password was blank. I needed to set a password with
the "remover" instead of deleting one. Sometimes common sense just doesn't
work, why the heck would the recovery console not work with a blank
password??? Now that I have the recovery console it still isn't working but
that another problem. I keep getting the command prompt.
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Ok, I think you may be a bit confused, once you login to Windows in
Recovery Console the command prompt is what you get. It doesn't do
anything by itself, you must enter commands. Check this out:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;314058

Steve N.
 
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