Xp home upgrade tries to logon to domain?

[W Robert Taylor]

Just installed a Windows XP home upgrade on a Win 98 SE system. Did not
install well, had to do a repair install on the install process?

Once that finished, the boot process takes me to a user id logon screen
where it asks for a password (passwords are blank) and then says "Logon
Message - System cannot log you on due to the following error: The
specified domain does not exist or could not be contacted" .

If I try safe mode I get the same thing. Does same thing with any user id
including administrator. Am unable to logon to XP. Can't get back to Win98
SE either.


How do I get it to not try to connect to a domain and just boot normally?

 

[Thorsten Matzner]

Just installed a Windows XP home upgrade on a Win 98 SE system. Did not
install well, had to do a repair install on the install process?

Once that finished, the boot process takes me to a user id logon screen
where it asks for a password (passwords are blank) and then says "Logon
Message - System cannot log you on due to the following error: The
specified domain does not exist or could not be contacted" .

If I try safe mode I get the same thing. Does same thing with any user id
including administrator. Am unable to logon to XP. Can't get back to Win98
SE either.

I would start over. Upgrade installations may lead to worse results.
Backup your personal data files, reinstall Windows XP clean on this
disk. Then reinstall your applicatons and restore the data.