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Recovery Console and CHKDSK
Hello, This is my first post so please bare with me.
Today I encountered a frustrating situation that I hope someone here can resolve. The patient is a Dell desktop computer running WinXP Pro SP2. The computer will TRY to boot but eventually ends in a BSOD. It will NOT boot up in ANY mode (normal, safe, etc). Using PartitionMagic 8.0 and some other tools I've determined that the problem is "Partitions Improperly Dismounted". The MS Knowledge base (among others) claims that the simple solution is to run CHKDSK. However, the partitions are non accessable. I tried to run the Recovery Console from the WinXP Pro SP2 CD, but it asks for the administrators password before I can acquire a command prompt to run CHKDSK. The computer owner has no idea what the Admin pswd is (we tried everything he could think of including blank) so we hit a stone wall there. I've seen the registry hack posted elsewhere in these threads but, again, we are unable to access ANY files on the partitions. I NEED to run CHKDSK on this hard-drive to correct the mismounted partions, so my question is: 1. How can I bypass the admin pswd to access windows cmd prompt? 2. If #1 is impossible, how can I run CHKDSK without file access on hard-drive (remember, the hard-drive isn't even being recognized by OS even though data appears intact). 3. How can I do the registry edit without access? You all are my only hope on this. I've already used everthing else in my bag of tricks. HELP! |
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Recovery Console and CHKDSK
1) Try contacting Dell to get the administrator password. This is THE
system administrator password, not the password for a random person with administrator privileges. 2) Try running OPHCRACK from its bootable CD to get all passwords (not 100% successful, but usually runs in minutes, so worth a short) 3) Try resetting the password. Google search will reveal many password rest tools, some free, usually based on floppy or a bootable CD. Also available on the Ultimate Boot CD. 4) Try making a BartsPE bootable CD on another computer. This is like an advanced recovery console, and does not bother about things like passwords. 5) Download the multi-floppy disk set of XP setup files (free from Microsoft). These can boot into a verison of the recovery console that might avoid the password problem. 6) Try the Windows 2000 recovery console. I have heard that it is less fussy about passwords. "Hardlock" wrote in message ... Hello, This is my first post so please bare with me. Today I encountered a frustrating situation that I hope someone here can resolve. The patient is a Dell desktop computer running WinXP Pro SP2. The computer will TRY to boot but eventually ends in a BSOD. It will NOT boot up in ANY mode (normal, safe, etc). Using PartitionMagic 8.0 and some other tools I've determined that the problem is "Partitions Improperly Dismounted". The MS Knowledge base (among others) claims that the simple solution is to run CHKDSK. However, the partitions are non accessable. I tried to run the Recovery Console from the WinXP Pro SP2 CD, but it asks for the administrators password before I can acquire a command prompt to run CHKDSK. The computer owner has no idea what the Admin pswd is (we tried everything he could think of including blank) so we hit a stone wall there. I've seen the registry hack posted elsewhere in these threads but, again, we are unable to access ANY files on the partitions. I NEED to run CHKDSK on this hard-drive to correct the mismounted partions, so my question is: 1. How can I bypass the admin pswd to access windows cmd prompt? 2. If #1 is impossible, how can I run CHKDSK without file access on hard-drive (remember, the hard-drive isn't even being recognized by OS even though data appears intact). 3. How can I do the registry edit without access? You all are my only hope on this. I've already used everthing else in my bag of tricks. HELP! |
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Recovery Console and CHKDSK
Hardlock wrote:
Hello, This is my first post so please bare with me. Today I encountered a frustrating situation that I hope someone here can resolve. The patient is a Dell desktop computer running WinXP Pro SP2. The computer will TRY to boot but eventually ends in a BSOD. It will NOT boot up in ANY mode (normal, safe, etc). Using PartitionMagic 8.0 and some other tools I've determined that the problem is "Partitions Improperly Dismounted". The MS Knowledge base (among others) claims that the simple solution is to run CHKDSK. However, the partitions are non accessable. I tried to run the Recovery Console from the WinXP Pro SP2 CD, but it asks for the administrators password before I can acquire a command prompt to run CHKDSK. The computer owner has no idea what the Admin pswd is (we tried everything he could think of including blank) so we hit a stone wall there. I've seen the registry hack posted elsewhere in these threads but, again, we are unable to access ANY files on the partitions. I NEED to run CHKDSK on this hard-drive to correct the mismounted partions, so my question is: 1. How can I bypass the admin pswd to access windows cmd prompt? 2. If #1 is impossible, how can I run CHKDSK without file access on hard-drive (remember, the hard-drive isn't even being recognized by OS even though data appears intact). 3. How can I do the registry edit without access? You all are my only hope on this. I've already used everthing else in my bag of tricks. HELP! Create a boot CD that allows you to change the Administrator password to a blank one.... http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ To run chkdsk without booting into windows at all, either boot to the recovery console or use a third party boot disk (BartPE, Ultimate Boot Disk, Hiren's Boot Disk, etc) that has additional goodies on it. Google will be your friend there. |
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