Administrator Password in XP Home

[Richard Mather]

I have an aborted installation of Service Pack 1a and when
I boot from the CD then try to use repair console I am
prompted for my administrator password, but when I type in
the password I use to log on as the administrator, I am
told "invalid password". Nothing I try seems to work.

I am now thinking that I have a corrupt *.pwl file and how
can I delete it safely and revert back to no password or
at least force XP to see the correct password by forcing
XP to rebuild this file?

I do have a ghost image of my entire hard drive stored on
a firewire drive, just in case.

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Richard;
Try this:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q308402&

Install SP1a

If those fail, try a Repair Installation:

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_install.htm
Windows Update and Service pack will need to be reloaded.

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"Richard Mather" > wrote in message
...
> I have an aborted installation of Service Pack 1a and when
> I boot from the CD then try to use repair console I am
> prompted for my administrator password, but when I type in
> the password I use to log on as the administrator, I am
> told "invalid password". Nothing I try seems to work.
>
> I am now thinking that I have a corrupt *.pwl file and how
> can I delete it safely and revert back to no password or
> at least force XP to see the correct password by forcing
> XP to rebuild this file?
>
> I do have a ghost image of my entire hard drive stored on
> a firewire drive, just in case.