XP Home missing user & logon

[Soum]

Hi All,
I have a pentium 4 notebook with dual boot (Linux & Win XP Home)
and it has been working nice over a year untill yesterday when it
suddenly started showing user logon screen with missing users after
normal boot.
I pressed CTRL+ALT+DEL twice for user logon prompt and I used the
only user account in notebook (XP needs to have atleast one user
account) with no password as didn't set any but it denied access. I
tried with Administrator but in vain. Now the situation is I can't get
into win XP.
Did anybody faced similar problem. Please, Please, Please let me
how to resolve this issue.

Thanks,
Soum.

 

[Phil]

Boot to safe mode, log in as administrator, run system restore. Your users
should come back.

 

[Soum]

Hi Phil,
As I said I have a notebook with dual boot so when I start GRUB
(SUSE 8.2) prompts which OS to load along with parameter text input
box. So my question is do you know what parameter is used to boot
in safe mode- is it -safe or some thing else.
Secondly, will system restore remove my linux and other associatd
files ? Is it risky any links to web site.

Please reply back, I would be eagerly waiting for it.

Thanks,
Soum.

 

[Phil]

It should be:
/SAFEBOOT

System restore will not touch any files except xp files, so the rest of your
setup should be fine. I will say I have never done system restore when dual
booting with linux, so I have no first hand knowledge, but the way I
understand that it works, it shouldn't mess up your linux or even your
personal xp files.

 

[Guest]

Hi Phil,
I tried the way you mentioned but I am even unable to login as
administrator. I haven't set any password for Administrator and I hope
by default it is none. I really don't know what is going wrong and from
this forum it looks I am not the only having this problem.
Could you please tell me when I boot with /SAFEBOOT option does
boot process turns to verbose mode, I remember this to happen with
Windows 98.
Thanks again for your reply.

Soum.

 

[Phil]

When it boots it a verbose mode, but eventually the desktop comes up.
Try here to get into the admin account:
http://www.lostpassword.com/