Difficulty accessing Recovery console XP-Pro

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RobW

Hello,

I have a machine running XP-Pro SP2.
It's not booting to the OS properly & I want run chkdsk from the
Recovery Console from an XP disk (slipstreamed SP2).
The problem is it's asking for "the" Administrator password. I don't
know it because I have another a/c with admin rights that I use
normally.
So far I have tried the following:

Trying a blank password
Changing pw manually with (net user administrator "password") from a
ERD console.
Astrumi 0.9.2 nt_pass util (including setting a blank password (*))

Should I run a chkdsk command from a NT boot disk & if so which one?

Extra info on what the PC is doing (or not doing).
It gets through POST ok.
It gets 30% though the "starting windows" (white bar on bottom of
screen) and just hangs there in the same spot every time.

If all else fails I will do a repair install.

Thanks,
Rob
 
S

Scott

Hello,

I have a machine running XP-Pro SP2.
It's not booting to the OS properly & I want run chkdsk from the
Recovery Console from an XP disk (slipstreamed SP2).
The problem is it's asking for "the" Administrator password. I don't
know it because I have another a/c with admin rights that I use
normally.
So far I have tried the following:

Trying a blank password
Changing pw manually with (net user administrator "password") from a
ERD console.
Astrumi 0.9.2 nt_pass util (including setting a blank password (*))

Should I run a chkdsk command from a NT boot disk & if so which one?

Extra info on what the PC is doing (or not doing).
It gets through POST ok.
It gets 30% though the "starting windows" (white bar on bottom of
screen) and just hangs there in the same spot every time.

If all else fails I will do a repair install.
Click to expand...
I don't know about recovering the password for the admin account but if you
run chkdsk /r from a command prompt it should do the full check the next
time you reboot. It should ask you if you want to schedule a chkdsk...just
type Y and hit enter.
 
R

RobW

I don't know about recovering the password for the admin account but if you
run chkdsk /r from a command prompt it should do the full check the next
time you reboot. It should ask you if you want to schedule a chkdsk...just
type Y and hit enter.
Click to expand...

Plz re-read original post. You will see that I can't boot to windows.
The only command shell I can get is using a NT Boot CD.
Thanks.
 
Z

Z

RobW said:
The problem is it's asking for "the" Administrator password. I don't
know it because I have another a/c with admin rights that I use
normally.
Click to expand...

Have you tried logging into that privileged acct and setting the
Administrator account's password from there?

Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Local Users
and Groups > Users > right click on Administrator > Set Password
 
Z

Z

RobW said:
Plz re-read original post. You will see that I can't boot to windows.
The only command shell I can get is using a NT Boot CD.
Thanks.
Click to expand...

Thanks for clarifying.
 
R

RobW

Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Local Users
and Groups > Users > right click on Administrator > Set Password
Click to expand...

The computer does not boot.
Thanks
 

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