Administrator password

[roy66]

Administrator password
I have XP on my PC and had loaded my Win98 H/D as well and both had been operating OK until a recent large hiccup.
NOW.. When I boot with both H/D connected I get a blank screen with the flashing - in the top left hand corner.

When I boot with both drives connected and XP CD which boots into Setup options I select R for repair then the recovery console comes up with 1:\Windows option which is the only one given.

When I logon to option 1 up comes type Administrator password.
I am the only one who uses this PC and it won’t respond to any passwords I enter.

I then went into the BIOS setup and changed passwords there but that has not had any beneficial effect.

Is there some way I can override/get around this Administrator password to get me to the next
step?????

Thanks
roy66

[lil Jimmie]

XP home by default will not have a password for the Admin.

XP Pro will promt you to enter a password for the Admin

If you didn't set a password then leave it blank

[roy66]

I wish it was that simple.

This is XP Home and it is requesting an Admin password and refuses to accept any that I come up with and after 3 non acceptances the only option is reboot and run through the cycle again.

[lil Jimmie]

If you are needing to do a repair skip the recovery console and proceed through the setup and it will detect the previous version and offer you the option to repair.

[roy66]

Have previously followed that procedure and came up with.

The following list shows the existing partitions et. on this computer.
Four options.
1 Setup/enter
2Create partition in unpartitioned space/c which is 8gb Win98-fat32
3Delete the selected partitions/d which is 40gb XP home -ntfs
4Escape outa here.

When I selected 1 it came up with 6 options.
each related to formatting partitions.

[Miz]

See if the information in the MS KB article, 'The Password Is Not Valid' Error Message Appears When You Log On to Recovery Console in Windows XP is any help.

[roy66]

THANK YOU ALL

My deepest thanks to all who have made a contribution to this problem.

But I have to say "Praise GOD"....as mysteriously as this problem arose it seems to have resolved.

With quite a bit of exercising numerous logical! remedies and during that period the system lost all track of both hard drives I have finally got the system running again and dual booting between XP and 98.

As all logical! remedies proved fruitless I re-entered the BIOS setup and manipulated the BOOT setup a couple of times with an eventual successful outcome.

I have tried to restore the OE emails lost with no luck so far.
I will keep trying...but if someone out there can put me on the right track it could save me a lot of time.

Once again...THANKS ALL you are a great bunch.

roy66

ps.
A - OK, I have managed to sort out the restore email issue....WOW.