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Old 01-05-2004, 10:14 PM   #1
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XP wont let me log in????

I installed XP for a friend of mine and when it finished and started to load windows it take me into log in screen as Adminisrator and asking for a password. It never ask me to type in a password or user name while Xp was installing. When I hit enter without typing a password in it said something like Cant find domain name or domain does not exist. Please see adminisrator.
I should also mention that this computer is an PII 233Mz 96MB of ram. Pretty weak I know. Never got any error messages while XP was installing. Think its the computer???
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Old 01-05-2004, 10:23 PM   #2
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when you were intalling it asked "is this computer part of a domain?" or seomthing like that..
you probably inadvertantly clicked "yes"..
I'm not sure how to fix it at this point...
I'm sure someone else will be along shortly with an idea
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Old 01-05-2004, 11:05 PM   #3
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if you can't log on as the admin, you can't do anything
you probly will need to clean off the drive and do a new install.
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Old 01-06-2004, 08:23 AM   #4
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I got Win 98 still on the same hard drive. how can I clean out XP from the hard drive with out deleting 98?
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I got Win 98 still on the same hard drive. how can I clean out XP from the hard drive with out deleting 98?
Just format the partition that you installed Windows XP on. Don't touch the Windows 98 partition.
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Old 01-06-2004, 11:34 AM   #6
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isn't the default password for Administrator NO password? Try leaving it blank.
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Old 01-06-2004, 01:36 PM   #7
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I did leave it blank still didnt work.
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