Recovery Console Administrator Password Help

[Guest]

Hi,
I am trying to use the Recovey Console to restore my Master Boot
Record. I run WinXP Home SP1. I am the only user of my computer and and
listed as Computer Administrator in the User Accounts. I have never had a
password. So when I booted with my WinXP CD and got to the section where you
pick R for Recovery Console, after you pick the Windows Option you want to
repair------in my case it is only one, my C:\Windows------it asks you for
administrator password. So I left it blank and entered. No luck---tells me
invalid. After3 unsuccessful tries the computer reboots. So I left Windows
load normally. I actually go ahead and set a password for myself. I reboot
and let Windows load again and sign on with the password. I then go ahead and
reboot and I left the WinXP CD boot the computer and get back to that same
place after choosing R for Recovery Console and picking the only
choice---number 1---I enter the password exactly lower cased as I made it in
Windows, and it once again tells me invalid. What now? Can someone please
help???

 

[C.Joseph Drayton]

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Hi Michelle,

There is actually a user called 'administrator' It is created by
Windows as a part of the install process. If you did not set a
password for the 'administrator' account, you should be able to leave
the field blank and hit enter.

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

That which a man buys too cheaply . . .
~ He esteems too lightly



osu87 wrote:

|Hi,
| I am trying to use the Recovey Console to restore my Master Boot
|Record. I run WinXP Home SP1. I am the only user of my computer and and
|listed as Computer Administrator in the User Accounts. I have never
had a
|password. So when I booted with my WinXP CD and got to the section
where you
|pick R for Recovery Console, after you pick the Windows Option you
want to
|repair------in my case it is only one, my C:\Windows------it asks you
for
|administrator password. So I left it blank and entered. No
luck---tells me
|invalid. After3 unsuccessful tries the computer reboots. So I left
Windows
|load normally. I actually go ahead and set a password for myself. I
reboot
|and let Windows load again and sign on with the password. I then go
ahead and
|reboot and I left the WinXP CD boot the computer and get back to that
same
|place after choosing R for Recovery Console and picking the only
|choice---number 1---I enter the password exactly lower cased as I
made it in
|Windows, and it once again tells me invalid. What now? Can someone
please
|help???
|
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