chkdsk

[Matthew]

I booted from the XP Home cd, wanting to run chkdsk.

It asked me for the administrator password. I had not
made one for that account when I set up the PC, so I just
hit enter to bypass it. It said that was an incorrect
password.

I have a user account with administrative privileges, but
can't find how to use them to change the admin account
password.

Earlier on the board, I found a solution: start,
run, "control userpasswords2", enter, reset admin
password. It didn't give me an error message, but when I
booted from the CD again, it said the password was still
incorrect.

Does anybody know what's going on?

Matthew

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Matthew,

If your system came preinstalled, this may explain it:

Cannot Log On to Recovery Console After Running Sysprep [Q308402]
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308402

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Matthew" > wrote in message
...
> I booted from the XP Home cd, wanting to run chkdsk.
>
> It asked me for the administrator password. I had not
> made one for that account when I set up the PC, so I just
> hit enter to bypass it. It said that was an incorrect
> password.
>
> I have a user account with administrative privileges, but
> can't find how to use them to change the admin account
> password.
>
> Earlier on the board, I found a solution: start,
> run, "control userpasswords2", enter, reset admin
> password. It didn't give me an error message, but when I
> booted from the CD again, it said the password was still
> incorrect.
>
> Does anybody know what's going on?
>
> Matthew